Conflicted Government Expert Airbrushes Embarrassing Autism Science

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Professor Alan Emond author of a new study claiming to overturn the link between autism and bowel disease has failed to disclose his conflict of interest as member of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation [JCVI Members]. Emond’s paper omits mention of and fails to comment on a series of medical papers establishing the condition.

The UK National Autistic Society reports that because of the controversy over MMR vaccine and autism parents of autistic children suffering severe bowel disease continue to have extreme difficulty getting medical treatment with many going untreated [National Autistic Society – General Medical Council Hearing Against Andrew Wakefield].

A 1998 Lancet medical journal study first published the link between autism and bowel disease and controversially suggested a possible cause might be the vaccine: [Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children Lancet 1998:351;9103]. The study has proven robust in a series of papers [cited below] despite being widely attacked in the media for suggesting a link with MMR vaccine and claimed to be “discredited”.

Archives of Disease in Childhood have since publication of Emond’s paper posted an eletter pointing out Professor Emond’s competing interest [Observations and concerns].

In 2006 after infant Georgie Fisher died following MMR vaccination it appears Professor Emond did not disclose JCVI membership to the infant’s father and his wife when Emond was brought into the investigation by the coroner: [Georgie Boy MMR].  The Coroner subsequently discounted MMR as implicated in the death: [“MMR baby ‘chatting away’ hours before his death, inquest hears” – Lee Glendinning – The Guardian 2 December 2008]

Allegations of a failure to include a formal disclosure of interests of an appointment as a Court expert witness resulted in one of the authors of the 1998 Lancet study Dr Andrew Wakefield facing unprecedented investigation by the UK General Medical Council  with a potential sanction of being struck from the UK’s medical register.  Evidence before the GMC shows The Lancet knew specifically of Dr Wakefield’s appointment up to a year before the 1998 publication. A decision is not expected until the end of this year or early in 2010.

Emond’s non-disclosure comes at a time when confidence in medical journals is falling.  Recent news includes blatant ‘fixing’ of the published scientific evidence base by drug industry interests: [Merck published fake journal – Bob Grant – The Scientist – 30th April 2009].  Drug maker Wyeth has also flooded medical journals with some 40 ghostwritten articles penned by prominent physicians who sold their name for cash, in an all-out effort to offset the scientific evidence linking its female hormone replacement drug, Prempro, to breast cancer: Judge orders Wyeth papers unsealed – Associated Press – July 25, 2009].

The JCVI decides UK MMR and other vaccination policy and was recently given sole legal power by the New Labour Government: [UK Government Hands Drug Industry Control of Childhood Vaccination]. In 1988 the JCVI approved  defective MMR vaccines and failed to  call for withdrawal when large numbers of British children were  seriously injured [British Government’s Reckless Disregard for Child Health Safety].

The Emond paper reviews medical data many years old for which no laboratory tests are available. Emond’s study uncovered a rate of 1 in 167 children with ASD born between April 1991 and December 1992, whereas the recently published study by Baron-Cohen detected a rate of 1 in 64 based on school data collected in the first half of the present decade: [Prevalence of autism-spectrum conditions: UK school-based population study Br J Psychiatry. 2009 Jun;194(6):500-9.].

 

Reuters news agency reported on Emond’s paper:

Autistic spectrum disorders are a group of developmental conditions that hinder people’s ability to communicate and build relationships. Previous studies, though inconclusive, “have described gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autism,” Dr. Alan Emonds, of the Center for Child and Adolescent Health, Bristol, and colleagues note in their study in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.

However, based on their results, “The bowel habits of young children with autistic spectrum disorder, in general, are no different from the rest of population,” Emond told Reuters Health. [Autism not tied to bowel movement patterns David Douglas – Reuters Thu Jul 23, 2009]

Editor Howard Bauchner of the Journal publishing Emond’s paper drives home the political message in an editorial:

The 1998 Wakefield paper in the Lancet ignited a worldwide concernthat there was a link between MMR vaccine and autism. Despiteno credible evidence that such an association exists, many groupsremain concerned that immunisations are somehow fuelling theincreasing prevalence of autism.

The UK is just now recoveringfrom the impact of the Lancet paper on MMR immunization rates.Unfortunately, it appears that many of the concerns raised byparents in the UK have crossed the pond and are affecting immunisationrates (and schedule) in the US.Drs Sandhu, Steer, Goldingand Emond, from the University of Bristol report that duringthe first 42 months of life, children with autistic spectrumdisorder have a similar stool pattern to other children. Althoughthere was a slight increase in stool frequency between 30 and42 months of age they conclude: “There were no symptoms to supportthe hypothesis that ASD children had enterocolitis.”  [Atoms: Autism and primary gastrointestinal pathology Howard Bauchner, Editor-in-Chief Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009;94:i]

The summary conclusion of Emond’s new study states:

During the first 42 months of life, ASD children had a stoolpattern that was very similar to that of other children, apartfrom a slight increase in stool frequency at 30 and 42 months.There were no symptoms to support the hypothesis that ASD childrenhad enterocolitis.

There has been considerable debate following publication ofa Lancet paper in 1998 describing 12 children with lymphoidhyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive developmentaldisorder of sudden onset. Wakefield and colleaguessuggestedthat a primary gastrointestinal pathology, an enterocolitiswhich they described as a new variant of inflammatory boweldisease, plays an important role in the onset and clinical expressionof autism.  [The early stool patterns of children with autistic spectrum disorder Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009;94:497-500].

Papers Supporting the 1998 Lancet Study Linking Autism to Bowel Disease

The claim to have found a new inflammatory bowel disease published in the 1998 Lancet paper as ‘consistent gastrointestinal findings’ involving ‘nonspecific colitis’ were supported first by a series of peer reviewed papers including in The Lancet itself:-

Distinct genetic risk based on association of MET in families with co-occurring autism and gastrointestinal conditions. Pediatrics. 2009 Apr;123(4):1255.]. Furlano R, Anthony A, Day R, Brown A, Mc Garvey L, Thomson M, et al. “Colonic CD8 and T cell filtration with epithelial damage in children with autism.“ J Pediatr 2001;138:366-72.

Sabra S, Bellanti JA, Colon AR. “Ileal lymphoid hyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children”. The Lancet 1998;352:234-5.

Torrente F., Machado N., Perez-Machado M., Furlano R., Thomson M., Davies S., Wakefield AJ, Walker-Smith JA, Murch SH. “Enteropathy with T cell infiltration and epithelial IgG deposition in autism.” Molecular Psychiatry. 2002;7:375-382

Wakefield AJ, Anthony A, Murch SH, Thomson M, Montgomery SM, Davies S, Walker-Smith JA. “Enterocolitis in children with developmental disorder.” American Journal of Gastroenterology 2000;95:2285-2295

Ashwood P, Anthony A, Pellicer AA, Torrente F, Wakefield AJ. “Intestinal lymphocyte populations in children with regressive autism: evidence for extensive mucosal immunopathology.” Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2003;23:504-517.

Papers Replicating The 1998 Lancet Study Original Finding

Another series of papers replicated the findings of The Royal Free Hospital London’s 1998 Lancet paper:-

Gonzalez, L. et al., “Endoscopic and Histological Characteristics of the Digestive Mucosa in Autistic Children with gastro-Intestinal Symptoms“. Arch Venez Pueric Pediatr, 2005;69:19-25.

Balzola, F., et al., “Panenteric IBD-like disease in a patient with regressive autism shown for the first time by wireless capsule enteroscopy: Another piece in the jig-saw of the gut-brain syndrome?” American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2005. 100(4): p. 979- 981.

S. Walker, K. Hepner, J. Segal, A. Krigsman “Persistent Ileal Measles Virus in a Large Cohort of Regressive Autistic Children with Ileocolitis and Lymphonodular Hyperplasia: Revisitation of an Earlier Study” [IMFAR May 2007]

Balzola F et al . “Autistic enterocolitis: confirmation of a new inflammatory bowel disease in an Italian cohort of patients.” Gastroenterology 2005;128(Suppl. 2);A-303.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you are concerned write to your political representative. Don’t complain when politicians  do nothing if you do not write and keep on writing. It is their job to represent you. All our kids deserve proper science to protect their safety.

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Conflicted Government Expert Airbrushes Embarrassing Autism Science

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Children Risk Untested Flu Vaccines In Hyped Pandemic

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British, French, US and other Governments plan mass swine ‘flu immunisation programmes this winter with untested vaccines amid hype by the World Health Organisation about a pandemic little different in effect to ordinary flu. Independent expert review has revealed ‘flu vaccines to be ineffective. Children proposed to be vaccinated first will be exposed to unknown adverse reactions whilst reported ‘flu cases have rocketed amid public fear whipped up by media hysteria, incorrect diagnoses and the cancellation of testing so reported cases may not be “swine” flu but other illnesses.

Hundreds of millions of “Swine Flu” vaccines push ‘flu vaccine sales to an all time high. Drug industry hands behind-the-scenes continue to influence the World Health Organisation to create world panic in this latest of a line of world health disasters like SARS and ‘Bird ‘Flu’ which have not been.

Sensational headlines are reported daily:-

• Kids may get swine flu shots first June 16, 2009 – Associated Press
• The UK has ordered 90 million does of the flu vaccine: [Swine flu: a timeline The Telegraph 15 June 2009].
• The French Government has secret plans for mass vaccination: Sarkozy’s Secret Plan for Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination – F. William Engdahl Global Research June 3, 2009

British Woman Gemma Drury [17] nearly died of meningitis after being wrongly diagnosed with Swine flu. [Swine Flu Error Girl Tells Of NHS Nightmare on Sky News 23^rd July 2009]. Gemma was so ill she pretended she had taken an overdose to get into hospital only to be discharged and told to go home and rest.

So how deadly is this disease?

So far, there has been literally hundreds of thousands of cases to report however, the vast majority of people appear to have suffered little more than a bad cold, leaving the public (and even some journalists) slightly baffled at what all the fuss is about … or even if we should be making a fuss at all. …. That the public is not panicking as the WHO raises the status of the outbreak to pandemic shows the success of our preparations“: We are well prepared for swine flu: Jennifer Cole The Guardian Thursday 11 June 2009

Sales of pork hit an all time low as vaccines and anti viral drugs sales hit an all time high. Many countries banned pork and ordered vaccines.

BBC News reported the mass world panic and a rush to protect all from the hyped “swine flu” including pork bans:-

It is no longer possible to contain the deadly swine flu virus first found in Mexico, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Governments around the world have been stepping up precautions against its spread“: [The world response to flu crisis] BBC News – 5 May 2009

‘School children worldwide had schools closed in the mass hysteria’.

‘Britain’s swine flu death toll’: [The Guardian 21st July 2009]:

Some church leaders in the UK and abroad have decided to stop offering communion wine during services, fearing that it could cause the virus to spread. In New Zealand, the Roman Catholic church has banned priests from placing communion wafers on the tongues of worshippers, while Chilean authorities last night prompted protests after they suspended a northern religious celebration”

Tamiflu, manufactured by the drug company Roche in Switzerland, is the drug currently being recommended but is reportedly ineffective.  The risk of death from Tamiflu may be greater than Swine Flu. 90 deaths already linked to the drug on the Drug Lib.com website: [Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) – Adverse Event Reports – Death]. Roche is reportedly “laughing” after selling more than 220m packets of the drug said to ward off the flu:

The trouble with Tamiflu Sarah Boseley The Guardian, Thursday 7 May 2009.

“Influenza drug Tamiflu ineffective against most U.S. infection Jan 9, 2009 – Jordan Lite – Scientific American “60-Second Science Blog”]. Virtually all the H1N1 viruses the US Centres for Disease Control has tested, 72 of 73, are Tamiflu-resistant:

Tamiflu Helpless Against Most U.S. Flu Infections This Season ” Bloomberg 8 Jan 2009.

Dr Jefferson, a Cochrane Collaboration reviewer in Rome, headed an independent non drug-company conducted review of flu drugs is concerned such drugs could be widely used as the solution to a flu pandemic at the expense of things that really work – like washing your hands: [The trouble with Tamiflu Sarah Boseley The Guardian Thursday May 7th 2009]. Jefferson fears if these drugs continue in use the virus will evolve and become to resistant to treatment.

Dr Jefferson is also concerned that the flu vaccine is being hyped into the ‘must have flu prevention’.

He has previously stated in the British Medical Journal in October 2006, that given the huge resources involved in yearly vaccination campaigns, an urgent re-evaluation was needed, as fresh analysis of study data revealed much of the prior research was flawed with little proof of the ‘flu jab’s merit.

Dr Jefferson’s Summary points

• urgent re-evaluation is needed because of the disparity between official panic and the lack of good evidence to support the steps taken
• the best evidence shows current inactivated vaccines have little or no effect despite public policymakers world-wide recommending their use to prevent seasonal ‘flu outbreaks
• most studies are of poor quality and the impact of confounding factors is high
• little evidence exists on the safety of these vaccines

Dr Jefferson states;-

“What you see is that marketing rules the response to influenza, and scientific evidence comes fourth or fifth.”: “2 Studies Question the Effectiveness of Flu Vaccines” – The New York Times By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL – September 21, 2005

People should ask whether it’s worth investing these trillions of dollars and euros in these vaccines.” “Studies question flu vaccines’ effectiveness” – The Seattle Times By Rob Stein [The Washington Post] Thursday, September 22, 2005

Dr Jefferson opinion is that flu vaccines not worth the effort. Influenza viruses vary from year to year so the effects of the vaccines are unknown.

Dr Douglas Flemming, of the Royal College of GP’s Flu Unit disagrees saying:- “We need to support the flu vaccination programme” [“BBC News Thursday 26th October 2006]. Dr Flemming has alliances with GlaxoSmithKline the drug company manufacturing the rival drug to Tamiflu, Relenza. In 1999 he was involved in Glaxo Wellcome’s Relenza trials. Relenza was a flu drug that did not make NHS approval at this time but is now the rival drug of Tamiflu. [“BBC News October 1st 1999.] GlaxoSmithKline are now supplying Relenza and one of the swine flu vaccines.

Dr David Salisbury told the BBC News that he agreed with Dr Fleming and he supported flu vaccines. Dr David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation at the Department of Health, claims evidence showed flu vaccines could give up to 80% protection from infection and prevented hospitalisations and deaths. He acknowledged that the vaccines were not perfect but added;-

We are hopeful that our new vaccines currently in development may overcome concerns raised about efficiency.”

Dr Salisbury is also linked by association to drug companies. Dr Salisbury as the Medical Secretary for the Department of Health is also a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. The JCVI has the task of approving UK vaccines. Many JCVI members have declared interests in a variety of drug companies when discussing the flu pandemic [ “JCVI meeting on 13th February 2008]. These financial ties include vaccine manufacturers Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Pasteur and Novartis. The JCVI is reportedly involved in attempts to hide evidence that the MMR vaccine can cause brain inflammation and permanent brain damage. [“Vaccine E-Newsletter March 20, 2009 Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back by Barbara Loe Fisher]

The US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told The Associated Press that she is urging school superintendents around the USA to spend the summer preparing for the possibility that schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall, if the USA Government goes ahead with mass vaccinations:-

“If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place,” She said. [“Kids May Get Swine Flu Shot First Lauran Neergaard June 16th 2009]

However, she did promise careful surveillance. Sebelius has strong alliances to drug companies. [“GlaxoSmithKline website] announced her appointment stating that she could work with them to save ‘World Health’ and get out of the ‘Healthcare mess’, if they (GSK) gave the Government the ‘right attention’

Announcing the Healthcare Team

By Michael M, GSK Communications on March 2, 2009 1:09 PM

We have a new nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Today, as expected, President Barack Obama officially nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

She is charge of in disease prevention, intervention and innovation–the three things that might just help us out of our healthcare mess if we give them the right attention!

As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sebelius “will work with Democrats and Republicans alike to cut costs, expand access, and improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans.”

World panic continues to reign terror especially for parents, as newspapers sensationalise this hyped pandemic reporting distorted statistics and to suit.

Most reported deaths were of people who had had underlying conditions and were at risk of any infection and could have and may have died in any event:-

“Father-of-three Michael Day, 64, a GP of Dunstable, Beds, who died on Saturday, was the first health professional to die after contracting the virus.

However, a post-mortem showed he died of natural causes, with a blood clot on a lung. He also suffered from heart disease and high blood pressure, and had contracted viral pneumonia.”

[“Parents pay sad tribute to their fun-loving girl Daily Express – Jo Wiley 15th July 2009]

UK reports around the end of July 2009 claim 30 people have died with Swine Flu with a claimed 700 world-wide.

 

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you are concerned write to your political representative. Don’t complain when politicians  do nothing if you do not write and keep on writing. It is their job to represent you. All our kids deserve proper science to protect their safety.

Contacting Your UK or US Political Representative

USA

• Contact the Senate
• Find Your Representative
• Write Your Representative

 

UK Residents – Write To Your Politicians – Do It Now!

To email your MP, all you need to know is your MP’s name.  MP’s email addresses are in the form:-

surname.initial@parliament.uk.

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More You Can Do

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Here is a link for you to copy and paste :-

Children At Risk From Untested Vaccines In Hyped Flu Pandemic

 

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Sunday Times Defies Press Complaints Commission – News Release

EDITORIAL UPDATE 21 MAY 2020:

Following a formal complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission in 2009 The Sunday Times failed to substantiate its published claims of “data fixing” by Dr Wakefield.

The UK’s Press Complaints Commission notified the Sunday Times to remove the stories containing those claims from its website:  Sunday Times Ordered ‘Remove Wakefield MMR “Data Fixing” Story’.

All The Sunday Times had to do was produce the evidence to show it had checked the facts sufficiently before it had published.  For a leading national and international newspaper title that should have been child’s-play. To date The Sunday Times has still failed to substantiate its claims.

There were exchanges of emails [quoted in full in the following article] showing the author of the claims had ample opportunity to clear the matter up by producing the evidence to back up the claims.  It seems he failed to do so.

The original CHS article now follows.

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Thoughtful House – Center for Children

News Release

July 9, 2009

Contact: James C. Moore

USA Tel 512.300.9232

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Sunday Times Defies Press Complaints Commission

Paper Notifies Media Oversight Agency that it Will Not Remove from its Website False Stories about MMR and Dr. Andrew Wakefield

(Austin, Texas) – The Sunday Times of London, a Rupert Murdoch News Corporation paper, has defied direction from the UK’s Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to remove from its web site controversial stories it has failed to substantiate, which allege Dr. Andrew Wakefield “fixed” data relating to the MMR vaccine.  The reports by correspondent Brian Deer are the subject of an extensive complaint filed with the PCC by Wakefield.

The PCC last week issued an unpublished directive that the stories be removed (see below).  They were taken down immediately, unannounced, but the Sunday Times has now defied the PCC by putting the stories back online after complaining Dr. Wakefield publicly announced the PCC’s directive.

Stephen Abell, Deputy Director of the PCC, wrote in his unpublished directive,

Given the ongoing nature of the dispute, the articles should be removed from the newspaper’s website until this matter has been concluded.”

The Sunday Times has an obligation to “cooperate swiftly” with the PCC in the resolution of complaints under the UK’s PCC Code, which states it is “the cornerstone of the system of self-regulation to which the UK [press] industry has made a binding commitment.”  The PCC is a non-statutory self-regulatory body run by the press.

Lawyers for the Sunday Times contacted Abell to inform him that the stories were to remain published on the website.  According to Amali de Silva of the Wiggin law firm, the paper’s management decided to return the stories to its web pages, after they had been previously removed, because Dr. Wakefield publicly announced the PCC’s directive to the Sunday Times.

My client feels that it is entirely inappropriate and prejudicial to keep the articles down,” Ms. de Silva wrote to Abell.  “My client will therefore be reinstating the articles onto its website, but will be tagging them to make it clear that they are subject to a PCC complaint, which is ongoing.”

Deer, the author of the articles that are at the center of Wakefield’s PCC filing, immediately contacted the Wakefield legal team with further unfounded accusations.  He also boasted of the paper’s defiance of the PCC language, which stated,

“The Commission asked that the newspaper now confirm that the articles will be temporarily removed from the website……..”

“In fact,” Deer seemingly brags in an email, “all of my stories concerning him [Wakefield] are available at the Times Online website.”

The PCC have decided not to issue a complete ruling on Wakefield’s complaint against Deer and the Sunday Times until the GMC announces its findings.  This decision was taken even though the focus of Wakefield’s complaint is Deer’s “fixing data” story; following an extensive investigation by the GMC, “data fixing” is not the basis of any charge against Dr. Wakefield.  Deer and the management of the newspaper have chosen to defy the PCC at a precarious time for UK journalism as parliament contemplates a regulated media and the Media Standards Trust is closely scrutinizing the industry.

(Email correspondence texts in full are listed chronologically below.)

See also Media Standards Trust news release about failing self-regulation of the media :

A More Accountable Press

About Thoughtful House: Thoughtful House advocates a multi-disciplinary treatment approach to treating autism and supports a ’safety-first’ vaccination policy. The research program at Thoughtful House is dedicated to understanding the biological origins of childhood developmental disorders and establishing best practices in treating children affected by these disorders.

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30th June 2009

Dr Andrew Wakefield

By Email

Dear Dr Wakefield

I write further to our correspondence.  The Commission has now given an initial consideration of your complaint and has authorised the terms of this letter to you.

It has decided that it will temporarily stay its investigation until the conclusion of the GMC inquiry, which is apparently likely to be in August 2009.

It considers that the conclusion of the inquiry will place into the public domain information necessary to inform its decision.    The Commission considered that – while the GMC was not specifically considering the charge that you had “fixed”, “changed”, “misreported” or “manipulated” data – its remit covered the manner in which the data was obtained and then published in the Lancet.  The central claim in the article (and several of the related claims that have been challenged in the complaint) appeared to be the newspaper’s – and journalist’s – own interpretation of the process behind the Lancet article; the GMC was itself looking at that process.

The Commission considered it appropriate to await the conclusion of the GMC process before considering all of the points made in the complaint.

The Commission wished to take this opportunity – in advance of any formal ruling on the complaint – to make the following points:

• Given the ongoing nature of the dispute, the articles should be removed from the newspaper’s website until this matter has been concluded.  This would not be an admission of any liability on the part of the newspaper.
• The Commission wished to express its concern at the initial slowness of the newspaper’s responses. It expected that the paper would engage promptly with the PCC once the case is reopened.  A failure to deal with the matter with appropriate speed could lead to the complaint being upheld on that point.

• The central test for the Commission will be whether there is evidence that the newspaper took “care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information” at the time of publication and whether there can be established any significant inaccuracies, misleading statements or distortions.  While the subject matter is complex, the article contained statements in clear language, which would need to be substantiated.  The information due to be  provided when the GMC hearing reports is regarded as essential to the Commission’s deliberations,  and both sides will be entitled to refer to the transcripts.

• However, the PCC will not rely solely on the outcome of the GMC inquiry, or on the hearing in its entirety, and wishes to emphasise that this hearing is important because of the information submitted to it, rather than its outcome.

• While the Commission takes note of the complainant’s concerns about conflict of interest involving the journalist and claims about his private bias (including what he has published on his own website), it can only have formal regard for possible breaches of the Code that relate to the material published in the newspaper itself. This may include the question of whether readers would be likely to be misled by the non-disclosure of the journalist’s involvement in the GMC inquiry (which is a matter of dispute among the parties).  However, the Code does not guarantee objectivity, and newspapers are entitled to print articles that are partisan about particular issues.  In the Commission’s view, the central thrust of the accuracy complaint was summarised in the 32 statements contained in the office’s email to the newspaper of 15th May and repeated to the complainant in the email of 2nd June.

The Commission asked that the newspaper now confirm that the articles will be temporarily removed from the website and that it undertake to notify the Commission of the conclusion of the GMC process and then co-operate promptly with the remainder of the investigation.

Yours sincerely

Stephen Abell

@pcc.org.uk

Press Complaints Commission, Halton House, 20/23 Holborn, London,  EC1N 2JD Tel: 02078310022 Fax: 02078310025  http://www.pcc.org.uk

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—–Original Message—–

From: Amali de Silva [email redacted]

Sent: 30 June 2009 17:22

To: Stephen Abell

Cc: Tyrer, Bob; Brian Deer

Subject: Wakefield – PCC complaint

Importance: High

Dear Mr Abell

I am writing to add my and my client’s serious concern regarding the email received by Mr Deer from NBC News. It may be that NBC has misunderstood the position, but the PCC asked my client to take the down only the articles complained of strictly on the basis that it would be temporary pending the outcome of the PCC’s consideration of Dr Wakefield’s complaint, and that such action should not be construed as an admission of liability. In these circumstances, it is seriously prejudicial to my client and Mr Deer, as well as highly misleading about the PCC, to allow the suggestions that the PCC has made a ruling against my client and directed that all Mr Deer’s reporting on Dr Wakefield to be removed, to remain uncorrected.

In the light of this, I would be most grateful if you would confirm that you will be contacting Dr Wakefield immediately to do the following:

1 – Clarify what statements he and/or his publicists or other representatives have made to third parties regarding the PCC’s letter today, and the identity of those third parties.

2 – If Dr Wakefield and/or his publicists or other representatives have suggested to any third parties (including NBC News) that the PCC’s letter today constitutes a ruling against my client and/or that my client has been directed to take down all Mr Deer’s reporting regarding Dr Wakefield, that Dr Wakefield should contact those third parties again immediately, retract such statements and inform them of the true position.

3 – Impress upon Dr Wakefield that the PCC has made no ruling against my client, that the request to take down just the articles complained of is a temporary measure pending the outcome of the PCC’s consideration of Dr Wakefield’s complaint, that it does not in any way constitute either a ruling against my client or any admission of liability and that he should not be suggesting otherwise.

Yours sincerely

Amali de Silva

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Original Message—–

From: Amali de Silva [email redacted]

Sent: 03 July 2009 16:16

To: Stephen Abell

Subject: FW: Wakefield – PCC Complaint – URGENT

Dear Stephen

I am writing further to our previous correspondence and our telephone conversation earlier this afternoon. As you know, this is an issue that my client feels particularly strongly about. The circumstances in which the PCC requested my client take down the articles in question are very different from those that subsist now. In the light of the actions of Dr Wakefield and/or his representatives, and the inaccurate “spin” which has been put on the PCC request, my client feels that it is entirely inappropriate and prejudicial to keep the articles down. My client will therefore be reinstating the articles onto its website, but will be tagging them to make it clear that they are subject to a PCC complaint which is ongoing. In this way, anyone reading the articles will be informed of the current position.

I would like to impress upon the PCC that this is not a decision which my client has taken lightly. As you know it would, in normal circumstances, co-operate with all requests made by the PCC during the course of an investigation (as can be seen from my client’s prompt action in taking the articles down in the first instance). It has had no option but to take these measures because of the very unfortunate course of conduct which Dr Wakefield and/or his representatives have chosen to pursue. The fact that my client has felt forced to take these steps is not intended, and should not be construed, in any way as a lack of regard by my client for the authority of the PCC.

Regards

Amali de Silva

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—– Original Message —–

From: Brian Deer <email redacted>

To: Joanna Bower <email redacted>

Cc: Ryland, Anissa

Sent: Mon Jul 06 13:12:00 2009

Subject:

Ms Joanne Bower,

RadcliffesLeBrasseur LLP

Dear Ms Bower,

Your client, Dr Andrew Wakefield, has published, and caused to be published, on his website, thoughtfulhouse.org, and on other sites, false claims that the Press Complaints Commission has issued an “interim order” concerning my investigation into his conduct.  Dr Wakefield claims that The Sunday Times has been ordered by the PCC to remove my stories about him from its website.

I understand that the PCC has written to your client to point out that these claims are untrue.  In fact, all of my stories concerning him are available at the Times Online website.

thoughtfulhouse.org is unquestionably controlled by Dr Wakefield, and his publication there has caused similar untruths to be published on websites either directly controlled for his interests, such as cryshame.org, which, as you may know was set up by Mrs Isabella Thomas, the parent of two of the children anonymised in the now-infamous Lancet MMR paper, or indirectly controlled for his interests, such as ageofautism.com, operated to promote and profit from concern over children’s vaccines.

It is, of course, nothing new for Dr Wakefield to mislead the public, and especially the parents of autistic children.  He has faced the longest ever proceedings before a General Medical Council fitness to practise panel, following the GMC’s reinvestigation of my journalism. In due course, I’d expect he will face a hearing of the PCC, covering much of the same ground on a significantly different evidential base.

However, you may feel it advisable to explain to your client that either he accepts the untruth of his latest claims and takes them down, or he maintains them in publication, in which case his conduct would not merely be wrong, but would be dishonest.

With best wishes,

Brian Deer

Minister Misled Parliament Over MMR Autism Link

[See end for “What YOU Can Do”]

Dawn Primarolo as UK Government Health Minister misled Parliament in a written answer to Conservative MP Mark Pritchard that Bailey Banks’ successful damages claim in the US Federal Court for an autistic condition caused by the MMR vaccine was “non autistic”, stating Bailey had a “non-autistic development delay”.

Now, health minister Mike O’Brien has agreed in a letter to an MP that the ruling referred to a diagnosis of an Autistic Spectrum Disorder.  “Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified” is a category of Autistic Spectrum Disorders which does not fall into any other autism category”. There is no misunderstanding amongst experts of what it means. The paediatrician advising the court, Dr Lopez, decided against a diagnosis of autism not because Bailey Banks did not have autistic symptoms but because his condition was vaccine induced.

The designation “Pervasive Developmental Disorder” is the US diagnostic term for “Autistic Spectrum Disorder” used in the rest of the world.  “Pervasive Developmental Disorder” is also the term used by The Royal Free Hospital researchers in their 1998 Lancet study which first suggested a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autistic conditions.  Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children Lancet 1998; 351: 637-41

Primarolo told Parliament in April when a health minister:

In 2007 the United States Court of Federal Claims made a ruling in favour of compensation to the father of Bailey Banks for his non-autistic developmental delay as a result of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) following receipt of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. ADEM is an extremely rare condition that has been reported after rabies, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, smallpox, MMR, Japanese B encephalitis, pertussis, influenza and hepatitis B vaccines. The Bailey Banks case has no implications for MMR vaccine policy. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090318/text/90318w0021.htm#090318108002328

Special Master Abell’s judgement in the Bailey Banks case states unequivocally (p.27):

Furthermore, Bailey’s ADEM was severe enough to cause lasting, residual damage, and retarded his developmental progress, which fits under the generalized heading of Pervasive Developmental Delay, or PDD. The Court found that Bailey would not have suffered this delay but for the administration of the MMR vaccine, and that this chain of causation was not too remote, but was rather a proximate sequence of cause and effect leading inexorably from vaccination to Pervasive Developmental Delay. .

Master Abell explained (p.7):

Moving on to the alternative hypothesis/diagnosis of autism, Dr. Lopez distinguishes autism as a more generalized condition without a known etiology, and contrasted it to Bailey’s condition, which he says is clearly attributable to demyelination based on neuroimaging evidence. Tr. at 41-42. Dr. Lopez also differentiated Bailey’s condition from autism, because Bailey has been affected in more than one developmental skill area; he clarified by stating that Bailey has “induced pervasive developmental delay…due to ADEM.” Tr. at 32. He noted that the conflation of designations resulted from a medical convention created for the sake of explanation to laymen, but that the two are not properly interchangeable, but actually quite distinct. Id. Speaking more directly, Dr. Lopez stated that “Bailey does not have autism because he has a reason for his deficits.” Tr. at 42. http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/BANKS_CASE.pdf

Now in a letter to an MP, health minister Mike O’Brien agrees that the term ‘PDD’ or ‘PDD-NOS’ (Pervasive Development Delay-Not Otherwise Specified) was that used by the court:

I understand that Mr X… believes that the answer should have referred to pervasive development disorder rather than non-autistic development delay. Relevant information is given on page 2 of the Bailey Banks ruling available at http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov by searching for ‘Bailey Banks’. This specifies the ruling refers to ‘Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified’ in which full features of autism are not identified’.

O’Brien has, therefore, conceded that there were features of autism, which undermines Dawn Primarolo’s claim that Bailey Banks had a ‘non-autistic development delay’: Bailey would undoubtedly be classified as having an Autistic Spectrum Disorder in the UK, even if he did not have “the full features of autism”, or was “atypical” as in many cases, and/or had additional learning difficulties (not usually grounds for withholding an autism diagnosis). Governments, heath officials and vaccine manufacturers are evading responsibility by exploiting confused terminology for a range of developmental problems, nearly all of which are non-specific diagnoses.

When the Banks decision came to light earlier this year Robert F Kennedy Jr, writing in Huffington Post commented that vaccine court cases were more likely to be awarded if the word “autism” did not appear as consequential on brain-damage from encephalopathy:

Medical records associated with these proceedings clearly tell the tale. In perhaps hundreds of these cases, the children have all the classic symptoms of regressive autism; following vaccination a perfectly healthy child experiences high fever, seizures, and other illnesses, then gradually, over about three months, loses language, the ability to make eye contact, becomes “over-focused” and engages in stereotypical head banging and screaming and then suffers developmental delays characteristic of autism. Many of these children had received the autism diagnosis. Yet the radioactive word “autism” appears nowhere in the decision. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-david-kirby/vaccine-court-autism-deba_b_169673.html

The problems are compounded in the UK by the policy of not monitoring, recording or investigating adverse reactions to vaccines, and then citing absence of data as evidence of safety. National Health Service advice is to ignore reactions to MMR vaccine, and to come back for repeat doses (against the fundamental medical ethics and even manufacturers’ instructions).

From an NHS website:

Q:My son had a sever [sic] reaction to the first MMR jab. Does this mean that he is well protected from these diseases, or is a second dose still necessary?

A: If a child has responded to all the components of the vaccine the first time, he will not have a problem being exposed to the viruses again. It’s like any one of us who is already immune meeting someone with the disease – the infection can’t get established.  If he hasn’t made protection to all three diseases after the first time, then he would still be susceptible to those natural infections, and still needs the 2nd dose.  Reactions after the 2nd dose are essentially the same as after the 1st dose, but if they do occur they are even rarer. There are no new side effects after the 2nd dose that do not occur after the 1st dose. The advice is therefore that it is safe for your child to have the 2nd dose in order that he is properly protected. http://tiny.cc/7vA7g

The casual dismissal of even “severe reactions” shows that Primarolo’s claim that cases of ADEM (Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis) which led to Bailey Banks’ pervasive development delay are “extremely rare” has no foundation. The most that the UK Department of Health could truthfully state about the incidence of ADEM is that they do not know how often it occurs, and that the failure to collect data is a matter of policy. Meanwhile, scientists and officials continue to ignore over-whelming statistical evidence from Japan of the correlation between the vaccine programme and incidence of autism, collated and presented by ChildHealthSafety and Age of Autism: https://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/japvaxautism/

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/06/japanese-data-shows-vaccines-cause-autism.html

The failure of candour over these issues by government politicians and officials continues to obstruct public scrutiny of what is going on over MMR, other vaccines and autism. UK citizens should contact their members of parliament http://tinyurl.com/ljxtgv to complain about continuing government dissimulation over these matters.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you are concerned write to your political representative. Don’t complain when politicians  do nothing if you do not write and keep on writing. It is their job to represent you. All our kids deserve proper science to protect their safety.

Contacting Your UK or US Political Representative

USA

• Contact the Senate
• Find Your Representative
• Write Your Representative

UK Residents – Write To Your Politicians – Do It Now!

To email your MP, all you need to know is your MP’s name.  MP’s email addresses are in the form:-

surname.initial@parliament.uk.

To find out who your MP is click on this link:-

http://www.writetothem.com/

More You Can Do

If you found this information helpful – share this page with others:-

• email the links to this page to others
• post links to this page
  • on your website
  • on your blog
  • in comments on relevant websites and blogs

• email them to health journalists and journalists from your local newspapers, TV and radio stations – [phone them for details of email addresses or look them up on the internet]

Here is a link for you to copy and paste :-

Minister Misled Parliament Over MMR Autism Link

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Lies, Damn Lies and Blog Posts

 

1 in 100 UK Babies Face MMR/Autism Risk – Research Shows

“Doctor’s MMR fears” Sunday Express – UK – [Exclusive – 5 July 2009 by Lucy Johnston Health Editor]

3,000 babies a year could have condition that puts them at risk from jab, says expert.

Fresh fears for the safety of MMR vaccinations will be raised this week with a claim that more than 3,000 British babies could be at risk of autism and even death each year.

The claim centres on a condition that affects one in 200 people.

In a new edition of his book, The Truth About Vaccines, Dr Richard Halvorsen collates the latest studies that suggest children with the condition have developed autism after jabs.

The London-based doctor, who offers parents single jabs as an alternative to MMR, said:

“If we could find susceptible children we could prevent them from being damaged by vaccines. At the moment we don’t know how many children are at risk…It seems to me the establishment are just scared to utter any breath that vaccines can be a problem.”

The condition, mitochondrial dysfunction, describes the failure of parts of the victim’s cells which produce energy. A recent Newcastle University study found at least one in 200 people harbours a mitochondrial mutation.

Those affected may not know they have the condition. However, research has found that vaccines can have a devastating impact on sufferers. Last year, the US Government agreed compensation for 10-year-old Hannah Poling, having conceded out of court that her autism was linked to a series of jabs in July 2000 at 19 months.

Her father, a leading neurologist, later discovered that she had mitochondrial dysfunction.

Hannah’s case is part of a 5000-case multi-party action before the US Vaccines Court, a body funded by a 75 cent levy on vaccines in the US.

Hannah’s lawyer Jim Moody said:

“For the Government to concede the vaccine was to blame should be a call to urgent action on behalf of both our governments to fund research.”

In another case, British toddler Harriet Moore suffered fits, became clingy and eventually died in the arms of parents Sarah and Pat Moore six weeks after receiving an MMR jab in 1998. They discovered she had mitochondrial dysfuncion.

Mrs Moore, of Peasedown St John, near Bath, said:

“Either children should be tested for this or the Government should bring back the option they once had of single vaccines.” In a third case, Jodie Marchant from Southamptom was given the MMR jab with the diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough vaccines at 14 months. She became ill, stopped eating and lost all speech.

Jodie, now 17, has severe learning difficulties and life-threatening convulsions. This year it was found she has mitochondrial dysfunction.

Joshua Edwards, 16, from Gosport, Hants, developed autism and bowel disease after the MMR jab. Earlier this year he too was found to have the mitochondrial disorder.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the government body that decides vaccine policy has said it “considered it highly unlikely that vaccination was the cause of autism” for any children.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you are concerned write to your political representative. Don’t complain when politicians  do nothing if you do not write and keep on writing. It is their job to represent you. All our kids deserve proper science to protect their safety.

Contacting Your UK or US Political Representative

USA

• Contact the Senate
• Find Your Representative
• Write Your Representative

UK Residents – Write To Your Politicians – Do It Now!

To email your MP, all you need to know is your MP’s name.  MP’s email addresses are in the form:-

surname.initial@parliament.uk.

To find out who your MP is click on this link:-

http://www.writetothem.com/

More You Can Do

If you found this information helpful – share this page with others:-

• email the links to this page to others
• post links to this page
  • on your website
  • on your blog
  • in comments on relevant websites and blogs

• email them to health journalists and journalists from your local newspapers, TV and radio stations – [phone them for details of email addresses or look them up on the internet]

Here is a link for you to copy and paste :-

Doctor’s MMR Fears – 3,000 babies at risk

_________________________________________________

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• British Government & Establishment’s Efforts to Deny Compensation to MMR Vaccine Child Victims
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• Vaccine Risks Outweigh Risk of Disease
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Gardasil Victims – In Memoriam – Healthy Young Women – Aged 15 to 21

Gardasil Victims – Remember My Name

Memorial for the New Year

By Cynthia A. Janak

On December 31st of every year we all make resolutions with the hope of improving ourselves one resolution at a time. Usually we make resolutions that we know in our heart we will not be able to adhere to. This year I am making a resolution to remember certain individuals that have touched my heart. These individuals are no longer with us on this earth but are now angels watching over us. I am going to keep each and every one of them in my heart so that their memory remains alive.

Here are thirty-eight reports of death. You will notice that some say undetermined or unknown in the report and others will say natural causes. This bothers me because if you read every single report completely you will notice that the majority of these girls and young women were healthy initially.

[See also CHS’ companion stories on the ‘flu vaccine: Flu Vaccine Cripples Healthy US Cheerleader for Life and Flu Vaccine – Healthy Test Volunteer Coughing Blood Dismissed as “Not Caused by Vaccine]

Brooke Petkevicius – Aged 19

The first is Brooke Petkevicius who was 19. While at the University of California, Berkeley, she studied social work and was involved in many extracurricular activities, including co-ed volleyball and ballroom dancing. She played on an intramural volleyball team, went to kickboxing classes. She also was a social welfare major.

She died 14 days after her first dose of Gardasil from a pulmonary embolism or blood clot. There is no family history of this.

Jessica Ericzon – Aged 17

Jessica Ericzon, 17, was “an all-American teenager,” as described by one of her upstate LaFargeville teachers. She loved SpaghettiO’s, pepperoni, lilies, listening to her iPod and making her pals laugh.

In her senior yearbook, she wrote, “The best things in life aren’t things, they’re friends.” Last February, she was working on her softball pitches, getting ready for a class trip to Universal Studios in Florida and hitting the slopes to snowboard with her older brother.

Jefferson County Medical Examiner Samuel Livingstone is stumped.

“She was essentially dead by the time she hit the floor. Whatever it was, it was instantaneous,” Livingstone said. His autopsy found no cause.

Christina Richelle Tarsell – Aged 21

Christina Richelle Tarsell, 21, died in her sleep June 23 at her home in Tivoli, N.Y. Her death was unexpected. After an extensive autopsy, the cause of death is still a mystery. My family has concerns about the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which I had received only days before my death.

She was a member of the National Honor Society and Amnesty International, and art editor of the literary magazine Brillig. She graduated from Hereford in 2005. Chris played baseball on the boy’s team in middle school, varsity softball in high school and tennis in college.

She had completed her junior year at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., where she was an honor student in studio art.

Amber Kaufman – Aged 16

Amber Kaufman was a perfectly healthy 16 year old teenage girl who collapsed on her way into work with a seizure and her heart then stopped. Amber played volleyball, track, and had a boyfriend who is still having a rough time.

Her cause of death was listed as “cardiac disturbance of undetermined etiology.”

Megan Hild – Aged 20

Megan loved children especially her nieces and nephew. Her family was her life and she never missed an opportunity to spend time with them. She especially liked to be at home just hanging out with family and friends. Megan was a student at CNM working towards her Associates degree in radiology and general studies. Megan’s beautiful smile will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.

She was a very healthy and happy going to college young lady.

Here is an excerpt of an email I received from her mother.

On her death certificate it will read, Cause of death unknown. She’s my daughter and I loved her!!!! I will never see her graduate college. I will never see her wear a wedding dress and hold her babies in her arms.

The one thing in common that four out of the five girls that I have featured is that the actual cause of death is unknown. How can that be? How can these healthy, active young women for no apparent reason just die? That does not make any logical sense to me. There has to be a reason because things like this just do not happen, period.

Jasmin Soriat 04.14.1988 † 10.12.2007

The 19-year-old succumbed to respiratory paralysis after she was vaccinated against HPV.

“She was fit, happy and fun-loving. She never had any serious illnesses, have no lung disease, and she has never smoked. There were also previously never problems with vaccinations.”

The last night

Meticulously the parents have recontructed the final hours of Jasmin: “She was at a concert a Spanish band, before midnight she was at a fast food restaurant, then drove with her flatmate home by taxi to Döbling. Two o’clock in the morning drank some tea. Her girlfriend came by to check up on her the next day but Jasmine, according to her friend, “she must have died a few hours earlier in her sleep.”

(This was a rough translation from German.)

Santana G. Valdez – Aged 18

She was beautiful, sweet, kind and always thinking of others first. She loved kids and was always surrounded by them.  She helped teach catechism at San Martin de Porres Church. She had just graduated from Nuestros Valores High School.  Because of a great personality, she had many friends. Not only was she my daughter, she was my best friend. We did everything together. I miss her and that beautiful smile of hers. She always believed in Angels and that they take care of us. Well, I know for sure she made it to Heaven because the morning of her rosary, a hummingbird was inside our house. It let us catch it and when we released it, it looked at all three of us and flew straight up into the sky.  She had to come to let her Mom know that she was okay. She died at the tender age of 18 years old. She just went to bed normal and never woke up.  Autopsy and toxicology show nothing.  Her heart and liver were a little enlarged. Death certificate says she died of natural causes but inconclusive due to toxicology and autopsy reports.

Jenny Tetlock – Aged 15 March 18, 2009

“Jenny Tetlock was a 15-year-old girl battling a rapidly degenerative neurological disease that some MDs think MAY be linked to the HPV vaccine she received shortly before her 1st symptoms appeared (there is no scientific proof one way or the other).” From Jenny’s Journey
Jenny passed away on March 15, 2009 surrounded by her family.

Some excerpts from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reports.

(COD = Cause Of Death)

How many young girls and women have died suddenly and the connection to Gardasil was never made? (If you know of a young girl or woman that died suddenly or of natural causes that had the Gardasil vaccine, please contact me through my website www.cynthiajanak.com/contact.html all responses will be kept confidential.)  This has become an international epidemic. I am receiving hits to my website from all over the world and reports of injury from outside of the United States. Here is an article from the European Medicines Agency.

279592 — Cause of death from a blood clot.

278865 — Respiratory failure on 3/6/07. 6/1/07 Received Death Certificate from epidemiologist which reveals COD asmultiorgan system failure and influenza B viral sepsis with contributing cause of staphylococcal secondary infection. (NOTE: 3/5 & rapid strep was negative & diagnosis was probable influenza.)

280163 — “the death was due to an anaphylactic reaction to Gardasil.”

297528 — the patient died in her sleep.

275428 — Autopsy Report which reveals COD as acute probable viral etiology myocarditis & manner of death as natural. (NOTE: Aortic & mitral valve insufficiency of unknown etiology.)

275438 — Sudden cardiac death and pulmonary embolism.

275990 — “the patient died of a blood clot 3 hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine.”

282747 — physician who attended a conference that mentioned two patients who were vaccinated with Gardasil. Subsequently the patients died. The cause of death not reported.

287888 — the patient died suddenly. The cause of death was unknown.

291804 — autopsy report which reveals COD as diabetic ketoacidosis & manner of death as natural.

293388 — death certificate from funeral home which states COD as brain death due to cerebral herniation and meningoencephalitis. (NOTE: patient received HPV & Menactra on 5/10/2007.)

300066 — the patient was found dead in her truck from a blood clot

323430 — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & death by respiratory collapse.

319810 — She was taken to the hospital by ambulance but passed away during the transport from an unknown cause.

320909 — The cause of death was “viral insult to the heart.”

320910 — The patient’s mother told to the physician that her daughter died in her dorm room 4 days after receiving the dose.

318491 — The cause of death was reported as allergic reaction to GARDASIL.

316983 — Death

317757 — Death — coroner says enlarged heart & enlarge spleen

309233 — Due to the arrhythmia the patient was placed on life support and died

325814 — The patient was told that the leukemia was treatable however on 25-JUN-2008 the patient passed away. (NOTE: physician mentioned that something had to trigger the onset and the reporter believed that it was GARDASIL.)

325063 — the patient experienced myocarditis and died.

310262 — cause of death is undetermined.

322250 — The cause of death was unknown.

321405 — Subsequently the patient died. (NOTE: One office mentioned that it had something to do with spleen, another office said that the case was closed; the patient died of natural causes, and a third office said that this case was still under investigation.)

319533 — Cardiac arrest, cause undetermined

324002 — Cause of Death: cardiovascular collapse as a consequence of pulmonary emboli, dehydration and diabetic ketacidosis. (NOTE: Sudden death)

305606 — Autopsy report states COD as undetermined.

321696 — (NOTE: Her cause of death was listed as “cardiac disturbance of undetermined etiology.” Taken from newspaper report.)

http://www.cbg-meb.nl/NR/rdonlyres/DF40BBC5-2D06-441D-8AA5-85F2FE25C4CE/0/Gardasil_pressrelease.pdf

London, 24 January 2008
Doc. Ref. EMEA/37479/2008

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has received reports of deaths in women who had previously received Gardasil, including two reports concerning the sudden and unexpected deaths of two young women in the European Union (EU).

For some reason the reporting of adverse events in the media both here and abroad are being silenced. How do I know this? An acquaintance of mine reported to me that a contact of ours whose daughter is now paralyzed has been threatened into silence and not allowed to talk to the media.

All efforts to find out who threatened them and why have come to no avail, they are too scared to even talk to us.

Take that any way you want. Should I be scared of those forces that have created such fear into this family, probably? Am I scared, No.

Exposing the injustices to our children and the people has become a calling for me. If something should ever happen to me someone else will take up my banner and continue to fight for the people of this great nation and world.

© Cynthia A. Janak
Posted with Permission

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Sunday Times Ordered ‘Remove Wakefield MMR “Data Fixing” Story’

[ORIGINAL ARTICLE FOLLOWS THIS EDITORIAL UPDATE 21 MAY 2020]:

When the article which follows was first published in July 2009, The Sunday Times of London had failed to substantiate their published claims that Dr Andrew Wakefield had “fixed the data” in a 1998 Lancet paper about children with autism and bowel disease which some parents had associated with MMR vaccine.  The Press Complaints Commission required the Sunday Times to remove them by the until they had.

Even today in 2020 The Sunday Times of London has still failed to substantiate those claims.

So it seems that:

1) The Sunday Times published false stories on Dr Wakefield making serious allegations which did not stand up and which have not been substantiated by them to this day;

2) in 4 months following the 2009 complaint The Sunday Times had still failed to substantiate them to the UK Press Complaints Commission so they were required by the Commission to remove them;

3) all they had to do was produce the evidence they relied on for their fact-checking before publication but they could not even do that;

4) they had to call in their defamation lawyers [which seems defensive that for an international flagship newspaper title];

5) they misled by presenting the stories as the work of independent professional journalism whilst failing to disclose that the journalist who wrote them was the complainant in the General Medical Council proceedings against eminent gastroenterologists Professors Walker-Smith, Simon Murch and Dr Andrew Wakefield;

6) that journalist had created [seemingly obsessively] a website which in 2009 had hundreds of pages and subjected Dr Wakefield to many years harassment – even to the extent of publishing pictures on the website of the inside of Dr Wakefield’s London England home;

7) one example of an accusation which did not “stand up” was the false allegation Dr Wakefield took out a “measles vaccine patent” to compete with the MMR vaccine. That was typical of the allegations which did not stand up. The patent was for treatment of measles infection and not prophylaxis [immunisation against future infection] so could never compete with MMR;

It was a treatment for clearing the measles virus from the body of someone already infected. Unlike a vaccine it was not to prevent future infection. There was no such vaccine – just a theoretical possibility which, if it worked, would take years to develop.

So the false allegation Dr Wakefield wanted to knock the MMR out of the market for his “vaccine” to take over never had any chance of standing up just like the other claims made by The Sunday Times.

8) Now in 2020 there is a body of sound evidence linking vaccines to autism. Even in 2009 CHS was publishing some of it: Some Science on How Vaccines Can Cause Autism – Rebuttal of Autism Fraud Claims in British Medical Journal – NAA UK NEWS RELEASE

All of the papers used to claim there is no evidence of a link between vaccines and autism have been shown to be seriously defective. A detailed critique here on one of them which shows it is invalid science:-  “Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism“].

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THE ORIGINAL CHS JULY 2009 ARTICLE NOW FOLLOWS:

[ News Release]

UK Press Complaints Commission Orders Sunday Times “Remove MMR Journalist’s Stories” on Dr. Wakefield from Paper’s Web Site

Work by Reporter Brian Deer is at Center of Investigation Being Conducted by Medical Regulators

July 2, 2009, Contact: James C. Moore, Thoughtful House – Center for Children

512.300.9232

media@thoughtfulhouse.org

(Austin, Texas) – The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) of London, an independent body that oversees journalism fairness in the UK, has issued an interim order calling for the Sunday Times to remove stories written by Brian Deer about Dr. Andrew Wakefield from its web site. Dr. Wakefield had filed an extensive complaint with the PCC regarding errors of fact in Deer’s reportage on the MMR vaccine and its possible relationship to autism. The General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK is presently hearing evidence involving Dr. Wakefield and two of his colleagues following a complaint to the GMC by Deer himself. The PCC decision today appears to indicate there are questions about the accuracy of the Deer stories.

The PCC complaint by Dr. Wakefield provides clear evidence that Deer’s allegations of “data fixing” by him are false. The complaint also accused Deer of an undisclosed conflict of interest since Deer also failed to reveal in his articles that he was the person who made the original complaint to the GMC, misleading the newspaper’s readers over the accuracy of his reporting.

“Given the ongoing nature of the dispute,” Stephen Abell of the PCC wrote, “the articles should be removed from the newspaper’s website until this matter has been concluded.  This would not be an admission of any liability on the part of the newspaper.”

Although media are expected to respond promptly to complaints through an informal process, the Sunday Times took more than three months to answer detailed issues raised by Dr. Wakefield, and called upon legal representation to write the paper’s response. Despite this the paper’s management have failed to produce any evidence of “data fixing” by Dr. Wakefield. In its letter to Dr. Wakefield regarding his complaint against Deer, the PCC “expressed concern at the initial slowness of the newspaper’s response.” The PCC said it delayed a complete ruling until it has a fuller accounting of all information submitted to the GMC, but that the outcome of the GMC hearing is notrelevant to a final decision by the PCC.

“My contention has always been,” Dr. Wakefield explained, “And it always will be that journalism, before it is published, must stand on its merits with good documentation, sources, and corroboration. Deer’s stories fail on every count. I see no connection between the GMC’s hearing and a decision by the PCC. If the Sunday Times cannot defend the information today, which it can’t, then it was unable to do so at the time of publication.”

Wakefield has been one of the subjects of the longest GMC hearing in history. Although the hearing was expected to be concluded in August 2009, information from attorneys involved in presenting evidence indicate the case is not likely to be decided upon by the panel until December and may not conclude until early 2010.

About Thoughtful House: Thoughtful House advocates a multi-disciplinary treatment approach to treating autism and supports a ’safety-first’ vaccination policy. The research program at Thoughtful House is dedicated to understanding the biological origins of childhood developmental disorders and establishing best practices in treating children affected by these disorders. www.thoughtfulhouse.org