A response to Anderson Cooper's interview with Dan Burton.
Sept 2015
First let me just state that every single vaccine manufacturer in the world has been fined by the US Justice Department for millions and billions. Everything from fraud, receiving kick backs, refusing to release safety data, off label promotion, monopoly practices and more. In 2010 GlaxosmithKline was fined 750 million and again in 2012 for 3 billion. Merk was fined 650 million in 2008. Pfizer is continually fined, most recent fines were for 430 million and 2.3 billion. Your own government went after them America. There are more lawsuits pending currently in 2015
.https://en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_s…
So now that we know vaccine manufacturers are not trustworthy, let us continue.
Mercury in a mother's breast milk is determined by a number of things. Everything from mercury based dental fillings, how often she eats fish containing mercury and how much mercury she is exposed to in her every day environment, including the vaccines she has had. As Anderson Cooper talks about Mercury in vaccines has only been removed from most of the childhood vaccinations, not the adult. So a typical up to date vaccinated mother can pass on mercury she's accumulated in her body from the vaccines through her breast milk. Most seasonal and H1N1 flu shots for pregnant women and young children contain 25 micrograms of mercury in the form of Thimerosal. For this exposure to be safe, a child would need to weigh more than 550 pounds. Thus for women, not removing the mercury from adult vaccines is doing them a disservice and posing risk to their babies. That said, there is a massive difference between mercury that has had a chance to not only go through the mother's digestive system and then through the baby's digestive system, before making it's way around the baby's body, then it being directly injected into a child's blood stream where it will not have the chance to go through the digestive system and will travel directly to the brain as neurotoxins do. The blood brain barrier of a child is only 80% formed by 2 years of age so without the blood brain barrier to act like a goalie and kick the harmful toxins out before making it's way to the brain, the brain is left completely unprotected. Thus Thimersol and ALL neurotoxins in vaccines are harmful to children. By the way, this isn't a reason to not breastfeed as MORE mercury is found in formula.
As for the statement that Thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines. Well this is the statement on the CDC government webpage:
"Since 2001, no new vaccine licensed by FDA for use in children has contained thimerosal as a preservative, and all vaccines routinely recommended by CDC for children younger than 6 years of age have been thimerosal-free, or contain only trace amounts of thimerosal, except for some formulations of influenza vaccine."
Did you notice how there is a line there that says "have been thimerosal-free OR contain only trace amounts of thimerosal" because I did. Define trace amounts. All mercury in any shape or form is harmful to humans, especially tiny humans. Not to mention according to this CDC webpage, Thimerosal can be found in not only the flu vaccine, it is also in the Meningococcal & the TD vaccine (Tetanus/Diptheria). Didn't Dan Burton keep saying he believed it to still be in three and didn't Anderson Cooper keep telling him to do some research? I'm just stating that it looks as though Dan Burton did know a thing or two.
http://www.cdc.gov/…/dow…/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf
And then there is this tid bit of information that Anderson Cooper left out:
"Astoundingly, the total level of mercury exposure, if a child receives all the possible CDC-recommended vaccinations that are still Thimerosal preserved, from 6 months to 18 years of age, has actually increased. Significantly, if you put the amount of mercury added to the immunization schedule as a result of the CDC-recommended seasonal and (in 2009) H1N1 flu shots** on one side of a scale, and the amount of mercury that was subtracted from that schedule by reformulating early childhood vaccines without Thimerosal on the other side, the total amount of mercury added far outweighs the amount of mercury subtracted. In addition, today most tetanus shots and the multi-dose Sanofi Menomune® vaccine that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still contain 25-micrograms-a-dose mercury."http://traceamounts.com/ten-lies-told-about-mercury-in-vac…/
Anderson Cooper said that the only reason Thimersol was taken out of vaccines was because Dan Burton "freaked so many parents out" and that there isn't any proof that Thimersol harms children. He pulled up his 3-4 safety studies to back that not only is Thimersol not dangerous but also to say there is no link between Autism and vaccines... Mmmkay... Now I'll pull up mine and mind you they're all government studies too.
Thimerosal, an organomercurial added as a preservative to some vaccines, is a suspected iatrogenic factor, possibly contributing to paediatric neurodevelopmental disorders including autism. We examined the effects of early postnatal administration of thimerosal (four i.m. injections, 12 or 240 μg THIM-Hg/kg, on postnatal days 7, 9, 11 and 15) on brain pathology in Wistar rats. Numerous neuropathological changes were observed in young adult rats which were treated postnatally with thimerosal. They included: ischaemic degeneration of neurons and “dark” neurons in the prefrontal and temporal cortex, the hippocampus and the cerebellum, pathological changes of the blood vessels in the temporal cortex, diminished synaptophysin reaction in the hippocampus, atrophy of astroglia in the hippocampus and cerebellum, and positive caspase-3 reaction in Bergmann astroglia. These findings document neurotoxic effects of thimerosal, at doses equivalent to those used in infant vaccines or higher, in developing rat brain, suggesting likely involvement of this mercurial in neurodevelopmental disorders.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21225508
Lasting neuropathological changes in rat brain after intermittent neonatal administration of thimerosal. “These findings document neurotoxic effects of thimerosal, at doses equivalent to those used in infant vaccines or higher, in developing rat brain, suggesting likely involvement of this mercurial in neurodevelopmental disorders”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21225508
Hypothesis: conjugate vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders.
The potential effects of conjugate vaccines on neural development merit close examination. Conjugate vaccines fundamentally change the manner in which the immune systems of infants and young children function by deviating their immune responses to the targeted carbohydrate antigens from a state of hypo-responsiveness to a robust B2 B cell mediated response. This period of hypo-responsiveness to carbohydrate antigens coincides with the intense myelination process in infants and young children, and conjugate vaccines may have disrupted evolutionary forces that favored early brain development over the need to protect infants and young children from capsular bacteria.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21993250
Serological association of measles virus and human herpesvirus-6 with brain autoantibodies in autism.
Considering an autoimmunity and autism connection, brain autoantibodies to myelin basic protein (anti-MBP) and neuron-axon filament protein (anti-NAFP) have been found in autistic children. In this current study, we examined associations between virus serology and autoantibody by simultaneous analysis of measles virus antibody (measles-IgG), human herpesvirus-6 antibody (HHV-6-IgG), anti-MBP, and anti-NAFP. We found that measles-IgG and HHV-6-IgG titers were moderately higher in autistic children but they did not significantly differ from normal controls. Moreover, we found that a vast majority of virus serology-positive autistic sera was also positive for brain autoantibody: (i) 90% of measles-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-MBP; (ii) 73% of measles-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-NAFP; (iii) 84% of HHV-6-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-MBP; and (iv) 72% of HHV-6-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-NAFP. This study is the first to report an association between virus serology and brain autoantibody in autism; it supports the hypothesis that a virus-induced autoimmune response may play a causal role in autism.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9756729
Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism.
“Thus the MMR antibody in autistic sera detected measles HA protein, which is unique to the measles subunit of the vaccine. Furthermore, over 90% of MMR antibody-positive autistic sera were also positive for MBP autoantibodies, suggesting a strong association between MMR and CNS autoimmunity in autism. Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12145534
How aluminum, an intracellular ROS generator promotes hepatic and neurological diseases: the metabolic tale
Metal pollutants are a global health risk due to their ability to contribute to a variety of diseases. Aluminum (Al), a ubiquitous environmental contaminant is implicated in anemia, osteomalacia, hepatic disorder, and neurological disorder. In this review, we outline how this intracellular generator of reactive oxygen species (ROS) triggers a metabolic shift towards lipogenesis in astrocytes and hepatocytes. This Al-evoked phenomenon is coupled to diminished mitochondrial activity, anerobiosis, and the channeling of α-ketoacids towards anti-oxidant defense. The resulting metabolic reconfiguration leads to fat accumulation and a reduction in ATP synthesis, characteristics that are common to numerous medical disorders. Hence, the ability of Al toxicity to create an oxidative environment promotes dysfunctional metabolic processes in astrocytes and hepatocytes. These molecular events triggered by Al-induced ROS production are the potential mediators of brain and liver disorders.”
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10565-013-9239-0
Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure
“Autism is a condition characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, associated with compromised immune function. The incidence is alarmingly on the rise, and environmental factors are increasingly suspected to play a role. This paper investigates word frequency patterns in the U.S. CDC Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database. Our results provide strong evidence supporting a link between autism and the aluminum in vaccines. A literature review showing toxicity of aluminum in human physiology offers further support. Mentions of autism in VAERS increased steadily at the end of the last century, during a period when mercury was being phased out, while aluminum adjuvant burden was being increased. Using standard log-likelihood ratio techniques, we identify several signs and symptoms that are significantly more prevalent in vaccine reports after 2000, including cellulitis, seizure, depression, fatigue, pain and death, which are also significantly associated with aluminum-containing vaccines. We propose that children with the autism diagnosis are especially vulnerable to toxic metals such as aluminum and mercury due to insufficient serum sulfate and glutathione. A strong correlation between autism and the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine is also observed, which may be partially explained via an increased sensitivity to acetaminophen administered to control fever.”
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/14/11/2227
Acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was SIGNIFICANTLY associated with autistic disorder when considering children 5 years of age or less, after limiting cases to children with regression in development and when considering only children who had post-vaccination sequelae adjusting for age, gender, mother’s ethnicity, and the presence of illness concurrent with measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Ibuprofen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was not associated with autistic disorder. This preliminary study found that acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was associated with autistic disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18445737
“Autoimmunity to the central nervous system (CNS), especially to myelin basic protein (MBP), may play a causal role in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Because many autistic children harbor elevated levels of measles antibodies, we conducted a serological study of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and MBP autoantibodies. Using serum samples of 125 autistic children and 92 control children, antibodies were assayed by ELISA or immunoblotting methods. ELISA analysis showed a significant increase in the level of MMR antibodies in autistic children. Immunoblotting analysis revealed the presence of an unusual MMR antibody in 75 of 125 (60%) autistic sera but not in control sera. This antibody specifically detected a protein of 73-75 kD of MMR. This protein band, as analyzed with monoclonal anti bodies, was immunopositive for measles hemagglutinin (HA) protein but not for measles nucleoprotein and rubella or mumps viral proteins. Thus the MMR antibody in autistic sera detected measles HA protein, which is unique to the measles subunit of the vaccine. Furthermore, over 90% of MMR antibody-positive autistic sera were also positive for MBP autoantibodies, suggesting a strong association between MMR and CNS autoimmunity in autism. Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12145534
“We find that ethylmercury not only inhibits mitochondrial respiration leading to a drop in the steady state membrane potential, but also concurrent with these phenomena increases the formation of superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, and Fenton/Haber-Weiss generated hydroxyl radical. These oxidants increase the levels of cellular aldehyde/ketones. Additionally, we find a five-fold increase in the levels of oxidant damaged mitochondrial DNA bases and increases in the levels of mtDNA nicks and blunt-ended breaks.. These mitochondria appear to have undergone a permeability transition, an observation supported by the five-fold increase in Caspase-3 activity observed after Thimerosal treatment.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395253/
Failure of the excretory system influences elimination of heavy metals and facilitates their accumulation and subsequent manifestation as neurotoxins: the long-term consequences of which would lead to neurodegeneration, cognitive and developmental problems. It may also influence regulation of neural hyperthermia. This article explores the issues and concludes that sensory dysfunction and systemic failure, manifested as autism, is the inevitable consequence arising from subtle DNA alteration and consequently from the overuse of vaccines.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364648/
I could go on and on but you get the picture. The science is out there, the data is out there, the studies are out there and if the media would just stop printing off and reading out one side of all these safety studies then perhaps parents could make a more informed decision. I'm not saying they shouldn't vaccinate or that this information would change their minds at all but I am saying that it isn't fair for anyone, the CDC, the FDA, doctors, news anchors etc to only give out one sided information.
Past all that, I think it's fair to say that Anderson Cooper baited Dan Burton and even Dan Burton says he is FOR vaccines and just wants to make sure they are safe Anderson Cooper wanted to make him sound like a quack from the get go. As Dan Burton states at the end he wasn't told to bring his safety studies, he was really informed of what the interview would be based on and if he had of been informed he said he would have bought the data with him so that it would have been a fair debate. I myself know plenty about vaccines but I can not rattle off from the top of my head all the data and statistics that I know about as clearly as I could if it were written in front of me. Andersoon Cooper, had time to prepare his argument and memorize it. Dan Burton did not.
Following that there is plenty of scientists concerned about vaccines and plenty of Doctors too and they're speaking out.
Doctors and Scientists with Concerns About Vaccines
Shizuo Akira, MD, PhD
David Amaral, PhD, MIND Institute, UC-Davis
François-Jérôme Authier, Professor, PhD
David Ayoub, MD, Radiologist
Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Levia, PhD
Toni Bark, MD
David S. Baskin, PhD
Denis Bedoret, PhD
Russell Blaylock, MD, CCN
Mary Ann Block, DO
T. Bobrowicz, PhD
Kenneth Bock, MD
Marie-Françoise Boissea, PhD
Subbarao Bondada, PhD
Jeff Bradstreet, MD
Pierre Brugierese, PhD
Julie Buckley, MD
Thomas Burbacher, MD
Fabrice Bureau, PhD
Rashid Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM
Stephanie F. Cave, MS, MD, FAAFP
E. Cernichiari, PhD
Pierre Cesaroa, PhD
Lakshman Chelvarajan
T. Chen, PhD
Xavier Chevalierf, PhD
Shiv Chopra, MSc, PhD
Stephanie Christner, DO
T. Clarkson, PhD
John Barthelow Classen, MD
Cevayir Coban, PhD
Maryline Couettea
Andy Cutler, PhD
Jeffrey Dach, MD
Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD
Vicky DeBold, PhD, RN
Jamie Deckoff-Jones, MD
Christophe J Desmet, PhD
Mary Catherine DeSoto, PhD
Richard Deth, PhD
J.G. Dórea, PhD
Peter Doshi, PhD
M. Duszczyk, PhD
Steven Edelson, MD
(The late) Mayer Eisenstein, MD
(The late) Frank Engley Jr. PhD
Håkan Eriksson, PhD
Christopher Exley, PhD
Carl Feinstein, MD
Peter Fletcher, PhD, former Chief Scientific Officer, at the UK Department of Health
Lisa Freund, PhD
Paula A. Garay, PhD
Robert F. Garry, PhD
Thomas V. Getchell, PhD
Romain K. Gherardi, Professor, head of the department of Histology, Henri Mondor hospital, Paris, Neuropathologic and Clinical activities at the Neuromuscular Disease Reference Center, and is coordinator of the Department of Neurosciences INSERM
Beatrice Golomb, PhD, MD
Jay Gordon, MD
K.S. Grant, PhD
John Green, MD
Boyd Haley, PhD
Richard Halvorsen, MD
Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS
(The late) Bernadine Healy, MD
Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Professor of neurology at Harvard Medical
Laura Hewitson, PhD
Robert T. Hitlan, PhD
Amy Holmes, MD
Brian Hooker, PhD
Mady Hornig, PhD
Suzanne Humphries, MD
Mark Hyman, MD
Philip Incao, MD
Ken J Ishii, PhD
Emmanuel Ittie, PhD
Dr. Jill James, PhD
Bryan Jepson, MD
Archie Kalokerinos, MD
Jerry Kartzinel, MD
Matthew S. Kayser, MD
Marcel Kinsbourne, PhD
Kouji Kobiyama, PhD
Sheldon B. Korones, MD
Arthur Krigsman, MD
Pierre Lekeux, PhD
A. Lerner, PhD
N. Liberato, PhD
S.X. Lin, PhD
Andrew D. Livingston, PhD
Yushu Liu, PhD
Brian J. Lopresti, PhD
Kurt M. Lucin, PhD
Patrick Maisona, PhD
M. D. Majewska, PhD
Jennifer Margulia, PhD
Thomas Marichal, PhD
N. Scott Mason, PhD
A. Kimberley McAllister, PhD
Jaquelyn McCandless, MD
Susan McCreadie, MD
(The late) Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, MD
(The late) John Menkes, MD, Former head of pediatric neurology at UCLA Medical School. Menkes was also director of pediatric neurology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In addition, he was a member of the Forum for Vaccine Safety with the National Institute of Medicine.
Joseph Mercola, DO
Claire Mesnil, PhD
K. Meyza, PhD
S. Midha, PhD
P. Mierzejewski, PhD
Donald W. Miller, Jr. MD
Richard Moskowitz, MD
Elizabeth Mumper, MD, Associate professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Virginia
Devi S. Nambudripod, MD
Meryl Nass, MD
C. Nelson, PhD
E. Newell, PhD
Raymond Obomsawin, MSc, PhD
Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD
Keiichi Ohata, PhD
M. Olczak, PhD
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Larry Palevsky, MD
Elodie Passeria, PhD
Michael S. Petrik, PhD
Jon Poling, MD
Diana Popa, PhD
Massroor Pourcyrous, MD
Sandy Reider, MD
(The late) Bernard Rimland, MD
Aviva Jill Romm, MD
Robert Rowen, MD
Catherine Sabatel, PhD
E. M. Sajdel-Sulkowska, PhD
Bob Sears, MD
Martyn A. Sharpe, PhD
Chris Shaw, Professor, PhD
DD Shen, PhD
K. Vijendra Singh, PhD
Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, FRCP
Peter Siesjö, PhD
Ken Stoller, MD
Carol Stott, PhD
Arnold J. Stromberg, PhD
Z. L. Sulkowski, PhD
Louise Swarbrick, PhD
Rena C. Tabata, PhD
Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Paul Thomas, MD
Jaime Tomko, PhD
Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD
Anju Usman, MD
Eva Vanamee, PhD
Chiara Villac, PhD
Andrew Wakefield,
John Walker-Smith, Professor
Judy Wilyman, PhD candidate
Margaret C. Wong, PhD
Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD
V.C. Yang, PhD
Amy Yasko, MD
Edward Yazbak, MD
Judy Van de Water, PhD, Immunology, UC Davis
Chiara Villac, PhD
Walter Zahorodny, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
A. M. Zavacki, PhDhttp://www.greatergoodmovie.org/news-views/doctors-and-scientists-with-concerns-about-vaccines/
Is that a big enough list for you Anderson? Can you give Dan Burton his due credit now and admit that he knew what he was talking about and maybe if you had given him a chance to speak instead of talking over him every few seconds he'd have had the chance to explain further.
P.S There has never been a safety study on the entire combined CDC vaccination schedule or double blind placebo study that proves that the vaccines are safe and don't cause autism.
Thank you for reading.