Hmmm, Dr.Verstraeten wydaje sie byc szarpany miedzy mlotem i
kowadlem.
.... the more troubling findings of early datasets were not
discussed at this two day meeting.
It is interesting to note the
findings he discussed at this public meeting and the closed door
meeting held at Simpsonwood are quite different from the findings in
his confidential draft of February 29, 2000.
Dr. Verstraeten's paper of February 29, 2000 showed a 2.48 relative
risk increase (a 248 percent increase) of autism in children who had
received the mercury laced vaccines (see graph 3 at the top of page
15 of the above report).
www.nomercury.org/science/documents/ThimerosalVSDstudy_2-29-00.pdf
Ciekawe, ciekawe ....
www.nomercury.org/science/documents/FOIA_emails_11-03.pdf
Even more troubling than the first written, yet unpublished,
analysis of February 29, 2000 by Dr. Verstraeten and the CDC is the
initial analysis which has been dubbed "Generation Zero" and was
apparently never compiled into a formal report. In this analysis,
done in November and December of 1999, CDC researchers found a
relative risk of 11.35 for autism for those infants with >25 mcg
exposure at one month. In other words, children exposed to
thimerosal levels as low as those found in the flu vaccine of today
were over 11 times more likely to acquire a neurodevelopmental
disorder.
These results were so disquieting to the CDC they apparently felt
the need to revise the data by including younger infants (not yet
diagnosed) and pulled in data from a financially faltering
Massachusetts HMO that dramatically under reported autism rates (due
to a poorly designed database) and used these "new" calculations in
the second and third drafts of this report. Internal e-mails from
the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, obtained by SafeMinds
under FOIA, appear to confirm this suspicion.
All of these numerical permutations dramatically decreased the
relationship of Thimerosal to the risk of neurodevelopmental
disorders, including autism. Unfortunately for millions of children
around the world, the published analysis of the VSD (Vaccine Safety
Datalink) data had eliminated the risk, never informing others of
their initial findings that were of great significance. Sadly, this
version would be repeatedly cited by other authors in many medical
publications and news stories over the next few years, even today.
The various manipulations the dataset went through over the course
of 4 years prior to publication is discussed in detail in the
science section of this website.
In the November 5, 2003 issue of Pediatrics, Verstraeten, et al
published data based upon the manipulated figures from the VSD study
as discussed above.
Ironically, even Neal Halsey, M.D., a staunch supporter of the
National Vaccine Program, and former Chairman of the CDC Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), raised credibility
issues as evidenced in his December 17, 2003 letter to Pediatrics.
In February 2004, Geier and Geier published a letter to the editor
in Pediatrics which detailed the serious errors in the Verstraeten
study.
Most telling is the letter from Dr. Verstraeten himself to
Pediatrics about the allegation that his study "cleared" thimerosal.
www.nomercury.org/science/documents/verstraeten_letter_peds_2004.pdf
Congressman David Weldon, M.D. (R-FL) has also detailed his concerns
about the credibility of the these studies and suspected statistical
cover-ups in his letter to Judy Gerberding, M.D., Director of the
Centers for Disease Control, in his letter to her dated October 31,
2003. Congressman Weldon stated:
“I am very concerned about activities that have taken place in the
National Immunization Program (NIP) in the development of this
study, and I believe the issues raised need your personal attention.”
“I found a disturbing pattern which merits a thorough, open, timely,
and independent review by researchers outside of the CDC, HHS, the
vaccine industry, and others with a conflict of interest in vaccine
related issues (including many in University settings who may have
conflicts).”
“A review of these documents leaves me very concerned that rather
than seeking to understand whether or not some children were exposed
to harmful levels of mercury in childhood vaccines in the 1990s,
there may have been a selective use of the data to make the
associations in the earliest study disappear.”
To date, there has been no corrective action taken at the CDC by Dr.
Gerberding, in fact, the pattern of behavior continues to be
reflected the their ongoing studies and published papers.
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