Question: Autism and Vaccines

[Timreh]

"Shots in the dark" is one of the better documentaries on Vaccines/Autism

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pnxAsrAK2hw

[Hervé]

CDC caught hiding data showing mercury in vaccines linked to autism

Health Impact News Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:29 CST

http://www.sott.net/article/274487-C...nked-to-autism

Dr. Coleen Boyle of the CDC testifies under oath before Congress in November 2012 that the body of evidence shows there is no connection between mercury in vaccines and autism.

In a press release issued this week, one that so far no mainstream media sources have bothered to report, it was announced that Dr. Brian Hooker had finally received documents from the CDC through a Freedom of Information Act that revealed the CDC had access to data linking Thimerosal in vaccines to autism, non-organic sleep disorders, and speech disorders.

Two members of Congress helped Dr. Hooker draft his letter to the CDC, after having spent nearly 10 years submitting over 100 Freedom of Information Acts to no avail.

This information, so far, has been completely blacked out of the mainstream media.

This information is very damaging to the CDC, which has stated for years that there are no studies linking the mercury of Thimerosal in vaccines to autism. You can watch for yourself in the video below the most recent testimony given by the CDC in the November 2012 Congressional Hearing on Autism, where they claim there are no studies linking Thimerosal to autism. Thimerosal is still used today in the flu shot that is administered to pregnant women and infants.

Watch more video highlights of this Congressional hearing on Autism here. Other than C-SPAN, it was mostly ignored in the mainstream media back in November of 2012.

The mainstream media's official position regarding vaccines and autism has been that it has been "proven that there is no link", and Dr. Andrew Wakefield is used as the standard scapegoat being presented as a "disgraced doctor" who supposedly got caught fabricating his study. Of course, Dr. Andrew Wakefield's study has been replicated in at least 28 other studies, and no case has ever been won against Dr. Wakefield in a court of law. Litigation is still pending, and one of the doctors who was a co-author in the study has been completely exonerated in the U.K.

Yet, the man who supposedly conducted studies for the CDC proving that vaccines do not cause autism, is a wanted criminal for stealing millions of dollars from the CDC, and is still on the run from the law. But that story is seldom, if ever, reported in the mainstream media. (See: CDC Vaccine Link to Autism Scandal: The Wrong Man was Condemned)

To understand the autism-vaccine debate one must look outside of the heavily Big Pharma funded mainstream media, such as this report by Emmy Award winning journalist Ben Swann:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wfqpZqEP6gg

The Canary Party has also produced an excellent video, narrated by Rob Schnieder:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6S1-LgYyjQg

SOTT Comment: Original report:
Vaccine industry watchdog obtains CDC documents that show statistically significant risks of Autism associated with Thimerosal

[conk]

Research communities or groups that don't vaccinate. Zero autism. The CDC is full of horseshyte and lies.

[Mixteca]

My nephew often appears to be looking in the other direction, but one of his Drs. said that this may be because of how he perceives and processes visual information. He will appear to be looking about 15 degrees to the right or left, but he may in fact be perceiving you to be right in front of him. The theory is that he sees a bunch of 2 dimensional views of what is in front of him, overlapping, instead of a contstant 3 dimensional panorma. This explains what I call his "swoop". You'll be talking to him and he is looking off to the side, and then all of sudden he'll sort of "swoop" in, really close to you and fix on your eyes then back away to 'normal' interpersonal space.

It makes sense to me if his brain is trying to sort through and process a bunch of overlapping scenes of what is in front of him that when he narrows in on his point of focus he has to "swoop" in to physically to get a fix on it.

What blows me away is just how brilliant he must be to simply move through space at all if this is how his brain processes visual information.
I bring this up just to say that it may be possible your son is seeing more than it appears if he is looking at you but off by some degrees.
Just a thought in case it might be in any way helpful. It may not apply at all.

It was very challenging to get my nephew to use the toilet to. He is so Hypo-sensitive that he often just couldn't feel his body needing to go in time. And then there was the understanding that the toilet was really the only place we wanted him to go. It was really challenging and sometimes traumatic for my sister and brother in law - they were getting a lot of judgment from idiots about that.

Here's wishing you and your son all the best and for this to be a relatively smooth learning process from this point on.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

I don't want to bring negativity in here, but today or yesterday CNN announced that another actor/director died.
I mentioned him in the thread about the recent Gulf War Syndrome testimony from a former troop, I can't remember which PA user posted it, but he did a great job finding the Youtube testimony from a young man who helped invade Iraq and became horrifically ill.

Anyhow, the movie star/director had a very severe and "rare" disease called "autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis", his name was Harold Ramis.
Was pretty famous for comedic roles etc.

Autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis pretty much means, there were periods of time in that man's life where symptoms would flare up,
he would get upset or triggered by something and have an "AttacK" of vasculitis. It causes all kinds of horrible problems, up to and including organ failure and brain damage.

Years ago, some research on my old blog did mention vasculitis in the context of vaccine injury.
I realized that Autistic kids and Gulf War Syndrome people had many of the same symptoms,
and these present as emotional/sensory brain/gut/autoimmune disorders,

some of the sufferers and researchers call it "ASIA" for short, but they are talking about a disease similar to lupus but totally caused by vaccines.

I would not put it past the CDC to hide the truth about ASD and GWS being linked to vaccines.

The groups, children and troops, are at risk due to exposure to vaccines.
That IS the common thread between what is wrong with the troops and what is wrong with the kids.

I know some people still disagree, that's okay, just remember while you disagree that geniuses and high achievers almost always have more allergies,
and keep in mind that more allergies = more severe vaccine reactions in many people.

SIDS used to be the big thing, now it's autism and GWS.

watch the feds and states try to cut back medical benefits for troops and children all across the board.

will there be parades and riots for ASD and veterans' rights, as there were for race wars and gay marriage?

Somehow I doubt anyone will feel well enough to march... but I could be wrong.
People have incredible strength inside them and won't take a diet of crap forever.

We HAVE to wake up before everyone is sick.

God bless you guys for trying so hard.
I wasn't able to apply some of what I learned to the actual experience of dealing with autism first-hand.

it's hard.

[Synchronicity]

But that isn't true. I have known more than one child with autism who wasn't vaccinated.

[Synchronicity]

Posted by Mixteca (here)
My nephew often appears to be looking in the other direction, but one of his Drs. said that this may be because of how he perceives and processes visual information. He will appear to be looking about 15 degrees to the right or left, but he may in fact be perceiving you to be right in front of him. The theory is that he sees a bunch of 2 dimensional views of what is in front of him, overlapping, instead of a contstant 3 dimensional panorma. This explains what I call his "swoop". You'll be talking to him and he is looking off to the side, and then all of sudden he'll sort of "swoop" in, really close to you and fix on your eyes then back away to 'normal' interpersonal space.

It makes sense to me if his brain is trying to sort through and process a bunch of overlapping scenes of what is in front of him that when he narrows in on his point of focus he has to "swoop" in to physically to get a fix on it.

What blows me away is just how brilliant he must be to simply move through space at all if this is how his brain processes visual information.
I bring this up just to say that it may be possible your son is seeing more than it appears if he is looking at you but off by some degrees.
Just a thought in case it might be in any way helpful. It may not apply at all.

It was very challenging to get my nephew to use the toilet to. He is so Hypo-sensitive that he often just couldn't feel his body needing to go in time. And then there was the understanding that the toilet was really the only place we wanted him to go. It was really challenging and sometimes traumatic for my sister and brother in law - they were getting a lot of judgment from idiots about that.

Here's wishing you and your son all the best and for this to be a relatively smooth learning process from this point on.

Also, there is so much sensory input coming at them that they can't process it all at once. As some say, "I can look at you or listen to you, but both at once is just much coming at me. If I look sort of where I see but but it isn't coming at me I can still hear you without it hurting."

I find the sensory sensitivity relates to the energy of the stimulus coming at them and for them it's so strong it's painful. My daughter can watch a movie in a theater only IF she wears the foam earplugs. She listens but doesn't look much or looks and talks to me without my energy coming at her. If I start explaining or the energy gets intense she stops looking at me but is listening. It is interesting to me.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Posted by Synchronicity (here)
But that isn't true. I have known more than one child with autism who wasn't vaccinated.

Then we need to differentiate between genetic disorders, which are individually quite rare, and not call them by the same name as diseases caused by vaccine adverse reactions, which are very common.

Are you factoring children born from mothers who were vaccinated at any point?
Are you factoring mothers who were vaccinated while pregnant?
Wives of men who were vaccinated, etc.?

Vertical transmission of viruses enter the equation?

When you say something is not true, please be specific about why.

The recent case of the Amish family who had the inbreeding-generated autism was unique.
There are not many families that have two sets of DNA that code for autism.

There are also kids who have DE NOVO mutations, kids who have cascade mutations and frameshift mutations triggered by bad vaccines, and all kinds of disorders not directly linked to DNA inherited from parents.

So even within the genetic category, you MUST differentiate between disorders and causes before even being able to enter the autism debate.

I hope we have the chance to continue our conversation.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Posted by Synchronicity (here)

Posted by Mixteca (here)
My nephew often appears to be looking in the other direction, but one of his Drs. said that this may be because of how he perceives and processes visual information. He will appear to be looking about 15 degrees to the right or left, but he may in fact be perceiving you to be right in front of him. The theory is that he sees a bunch of 2 dimensional views of what is in front of him, overlapping, instead of a contstant 3 dimensional panorma. This explains what I call his "swoop". You'll be talking to him and he is looking off to the side, and then all of sudden he'll sort of "swoop" in, really close to you and fix on your eyes then back away to 'normal' interpersonal space.

It makes sense to me if his brain is trying to sort through and process a bunch of overlapping scenes of what is in front of him that when he narrows in on his point of focus he has to "swoop" in to physically to get a fix on it.

What blows me away is just how brilliant he must be to simply move through space at all if this is how his brain processes visual information.
I bring this up just to say that it may be possible your son is seeing more than it appears if he is looking at you but off by some degrees.
Just a thought in case it might be in any way helpful. It may not apply at all.

It was very challenging to get my nephew to use the toilet to. He is so Hypo-sensitive that he often just couldn't feel his body needing to go in time. And then there was the understanding that the toilet was really the only place we wanted him to go. It was really challenging and sometimes traumatic for my sister and brother in law - they were getting a lot of judgment from idiots about that.

Here's wishing you and your son all the best and for this to be a relatively smooth learning process from this point on.

Also, there is so much sensory input coming at them that they can't process it all at once. As some say, "I can look at you or listen to you, but both at once is just much coming at me. If I look sort of where I see but but it isn't coming at me I can still hear you without it hurting."

I find the sensory sensitivity relates to the energy of the stimulus coming at them and for them it's so strong it's painful. My daughter can watch a movie in a theater only IF she wears the foam earplugs. She listens but doesn't look much or looks and talks to me without my energy coming at her. If I start explaining or the energy gets intense she stops looking at me but is listening. It is interesting to me.

This sounds like a de-myelination disorder.
That can be caused by many different things, from mercury poisoning to diabetes to genetic disorders like adrenoleukodystrophy (Lorenzo's Oil), to vaccine-induced diseases like Gulf War Syndrome and types of Lupus.

Some people have autoimmunity that causes stripping of the brain and nerves, you realize we have many cells in the brain that do not transmit signals but rather provide insulation and structural strength, right? There are many causes for missing nerve coating and signals transmitting too far or fast across the human brain.

Also many autistic kids' brains are about 18% heavier than normal, and the cells closer together and more numerous, not necessarily more networked,
and yes people with problems on the 13 or 16th chromosome can be missing the corpus callosum entirely, with or without symptoms of ASD.

the list of possible causes is very long.

but i had a child who "regressed" with typical autism symptoms, and we even had a nurse at Group Health accidentally give him an oral vaccine at the wrong time entirely,
I speak from personal experience when I say that gut and brain disorders (very closely linked in all areas of life) can be caused by vaccines.

People here talk a lot about celiac disease, which is another marker when you are looking for ASD, which is not just a brain disorder but also a mitochondrial struggle and a gut problem.

the brain suffers from everything from too much ammonia in the bloodstream to too much bacterial waste, etc.

there are so many causes it's not even funny, but it has to start somewhere, and when you are playing God with the immune system,
anything can happen if you determine the right time and circumstance of introduction...



p.s. corn syrup and pellagra are another angle of the autism issue that doctors don't often discuss.

especially when giving that Similac sample that is 40+% corn syrup solids.
for babies!! sad world eh?

when prisoners were fed corn diets during an early US experiment,
they also developed pellagra/celiac disease, and so do people who drink too much (corn syrup) soda pop.


there is yet another cause for what doctors refer to as ASD.

and it's really dangerous when you consider BPA and flouride in the water.
babies on formula get a lot of bad toxins.

also there are moms who were folate deficient during and after pregnancy.
they almost always get PPD.

[Fairy Friend]

Unfortunately, we give vaccines when we start to introduce foods and so it is hard to tell which could be a cause. My grandson was speaking and then he lost words and eye contact. The Dr not only resisted something was wrong like autism or Angelman's syndrome and she gave extra shots because he was late in the end of a sequence, contradicting the nurse who told us otherwise. She told my daughter he wouldn't be allowed to go to school without them given. I beg to differ. I feel angry about it.

My grandson would flip out when we had to use a changing table. I thought someone dropped him. Come to find out a lot of kids associate it with the doctors office, not only the painful shots in the office but they get weighed just before and it looks like a changing table. Now he is afraid and I wonder if even he can tell that it changed him and is afraid. Maybe the kids are telling us what's wrong too.

At the end of the day, my grandson sees me, he looks into my eyes where he wasn't before. He says words that were disappearing. He's happy. He sees me. That's all that matters to me right now. Adjusting probiotics, Epsom salt baths, organic foods, fermented vegetables, pH, oxygenating, play and music therapy. Running tests. Whatever works. Right? Not to say I haven't had setbacks.

I see a great future where we will run the right tests and do the right things and fix our own mistakes. The beginning of golden ages are very messy.

[Mixteca]

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Also, there is so much sensory input coming at them that they can't process it all at once. As some say, "I can look at you or listen to you, but both at once is just much coming at me. If I look sort of where I see but but it isn't coming at me I can still hear you without it hurting."

I find the sensory sensitivity relates to the energy of the stimulus coming at them and for them it's so strong it's painful. My daughter can watch a movie in a theater only IF she wears the foam earplugs. She listens but doesn't look much or looks and talks to me without my energy coming at her. If I start explaining or the energy gets intense she stops looking at me but is listening. It is interesting to me.

This is interesting. Although not diagnosed, I am very energy sensistive and sensitive to auditory stuff as well. One morning a long time ago I came downstairs and my step-father leaned forward in his chair and just smiled at me. Not a word. (knew I can't handle much noise in the morning) But he was SO intent!! I said, "Howard, pleeeeast stop smiling so loud!!"

When I get tired, my brain just doesn't process very particular sounds well. When I was little, the sounds of vacuum cleaners, nail files and violins caused me severe pain at ANYtime. As I got older I could tolerate them fine as long as I wasn't tired.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Hi guys, thought this was interesting, it came in my email today, almost spam but the topic was a HOT one for us to review.
Consider that "PTSD", like "ASD", is another catch-all phrase for vaccine-induced physical dis-regulation. And other forms of dis-regulation, or dysregulation.

Inflammation PRECEDES PTSD in troops:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiat...&mu_id=5906468

Inflammation May Be PTSD Risk Factor
Published: Feb 27, 2014 | Updated: Feb 27, 2014

By John Gever, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today
Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE; Instructor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse

High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammation marker, were seen in soldiers who later developed post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers said.

Among U.S. Marines and Navy personnel who consented to participate in a prospective study, each 10-fold increment in CRP levels at pre-deployment baseline was associated with a 51% increased likelihood of showing at least one PTSD symptom after deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan (odds ratio 1.51, 95% CI 1.15-1.97, P=0.003), reported Dewleen Baker, MD, of the VA Healthcare System in San Diego, and colleagues.

Writing online in JAMA Psychiatry, the researchers proposed that inflammation may predispose people to develop PTSD.

"If peripheral inflammation contributes to the development of PTSD, interventions to decrease inflammation, such as dietary or lifestyle modifications, might ameliorate the severity of this disorder," they wrote.

Paul E. Schulz, MD, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, who was not involved with the study, told MedPage Today that a clinical study "to investigate whether lowering CRP leads to a reduced incidence of developing PTSD" would help confirm a cause-and-effect relationship.

Another scholar not associated with the study said it highlighted an exciting area in PTSD research.

"The immune system is really a very complex part of the body, and I think we are just now beginning to understand its role in interactions with psychiatric illness," said Bruce Capehart, MD, of Duke University.

But he suggested that it would be premature to accept the current study as proof that inflammation is causative in PTSD.

He pointed to a lack of "dose-response" in the study -- in particular, that participants with baseline CRP levels higher than 10 ng/mL (well above the mean of 1.93 ng/mL) did not show significantly higher risk of PTSD than those with lower but still above-average CRP values.

"To look at it as one-way causation may not be that simple," Capehart said. "We may be looking at a two-way relationship there. Maybe there is a susceptibility there for some people to have a modestly elevated inflammatory state and a simultaneous greater risk for developing an anxiety disorder."

Study Design and Results

The analysis was part of the prospective Marine Resiliency Study, in which a total of 2,610 Marines and Navy sailors in four cohorts were recruited prior to war-theater deployment for baseline testing and subsequent medical and psychiatric follow-up. Participants were considered physically healthy at baseline.

Psychiatric follow-up was conducted after the conclusion of 7-month deployments at 3 months and again at 6 months. Data from both visits were available for 1,617 participants.

Mean participant age was about 23 but ranged from 18 to 48. CRP levels at baseline averaged 1.93 ng/mL (SD 3.31); the median level was 0.79 and the full range was 0.03 to 28.53. About half the cohort had been deployed before and the median time in military service was 3 years.

PTSD was evaluated with the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS); mean baseline scores were 14.89 (SD 15.37). Other psychiatric assessments included the Beck anxiety and depression scales. Participants were asked about deployment-related trauma at the 3-month visit.

Overall, the prevalence of PTSD did not change markedly post- versus pre-deployment. Diagnoses of PTSD were made in 4.7% of participants at baseline and in 6.3% and 5.1% at the 3- and 6-month evaluations after conclusion of deployment.

Mean CAPS scores at the 3- and 6-month points were 17.40 (SD 18.01) and 15.41 (SD 17.39), respectively (P versus baseline not reported).

Baker and colleagues used a statistical method called zero-inflated negative binomial regression for their analyses of baseline factors in association with post-deployment CAPS scores. This was intended to compensate for data distributions "that have an excess of zeroes in addition to being positively skewed," they explained.

Under this method, measures of combat exposure and potentially traumatic battlefield experiences were significantly associated with CAPS scores at the 3-month post-deployment visit, with odds ratios of 1.03 (95% CI 1.01-1.05) and 1.08 (95% CI 1.03-1.13), respectively in a "zero model" indicating presence versus absence of any PTSD symptom.

In a "count model," indicating the extent of symptoms when present, scores for combat exposure, battlefield experience, and 10-fold increment in CRP were associated with post-deployment CAPS score as follows:

Combat exposure: OR 1.01 (P=0.001)
Battlefield experience: OR 1.04 (P<0.001)
Log CRP: OR 1.06 (P=0.09)
Looking at the data more simply, Baker and colleagues calculated that, after adjusting for combat exposure and battlefield experience scores, those with PTSD symptoms at the 6-month visit had mean baseline CRP levels of 1.0 ng/mL, versus about 0.77 ng/mL for those without post-deployment symptoms (P<0.05).

What Does It Mean?

Schulz said the inflammation-PTSD relationship was definitely plausible on the basis of several lines of research. For example, he told MedPage Today in an email, previous traumatic brain injury is a known risk factor for PTSD, and the mechanism may involve chronic brain inflammation resulting from the injury. Other lines of research have implicated immunological factors in promoting susceptibility to PTSD, he said.

But he acknowledged that CRP in the study could also have served as a marker for pre-existing stress and anxiety.

"Several of the papers we reviewed as part of a 'review of the risk factors for PTSD' suggested that a personal history of anxiety, a family history of anxiety, and a family history of depression, are risk factors for developing PTSD," Schulz said. He also noted that previous research had identified dozens of other risk factors for PTSD.

Psychologist David Blackburn, PhD, of Temple Mental Health Center in Temple, Texas, part of the Scott & White Healthcare system, who also was not involved with the study, told MedPage Today that future investigations into the relationship should take a broader perspective.

"I think subsequent research needs to not only involve military members who have PTSD, but also civilians who also have PTSD; this would strengthen the study," he said in an email. "In addition, more longitudinal studies over longer periods of time would also strengthen the relationship [Baker and colleagues] are proposing."

Capehart said the complexity of the mind-body relationship when it comes to PTSD "makes it a very exciting time to be practicing psychiatry."

The study was funded by the U.S. government.

Authors declared they had no relevant financial interests.

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Even if the gov't has to admit to injuring these people, it's better to say so now and stop doing it!

read between the lines above and listen to what your gut is telling you.
the people who bash the study want it diluted.

They don't want a military-only study to happen and be accepted.
the critics of this gov't study think "civilians should be grouped with military" when civilians did NOT receive the vaccines we did.

DUH

[Hervé]

In a comment to this article (<---), I ran into this:

February 28, 2014 at 5:47 pm
Michael Burns says:

Bayer Chemical Corporation part of the original six that made up IG Farben, lost it rights to its name in the United States, after its atrocities in the WWI. It was the manufacturer of mustard gas, amongst other corruptions.

Interesting fact here: Bayer the maker of Aspirin was also the maker of a child’s cough medicine with heroin as its major ingredient. When physicians noticed the highly addictive qualities of the new Bayer product, Bayer was ordered to stop manufacture and distribution of the new product. It took some time for this to happen. Bayer unimpeded, were allowed to sell the product in the third world, and market the product globally for another 15 years; Heroin is an original Bayer trademark.

When Bayer merged with IG Farben it was part and parcel of the Nazi exterminators. Farben even requested during the war that the Reich set up of camps for trials of their poisons and chemicals. Farben was against the Wehrmacht Republic totally and its interests in world domination lay only with the Third Reich, it backed it financially, and fully supported, if not having a hand in creating Adolf and his band of renown’s. Farben threw a lot of money into the Third Reich. The corruption here gets so deep you would need a shovel…actually a backhoe…maybe a lot of backhoes. One could list endless crimes, Ad Nauseum.

After the Nuremburg IG Farben trial, Farben was broke back down into its smaller components. Bayer and three others bought up the assets of the original six. The managing executives were given light sentence of one and half to eight years, they went back to their old dictatorial positions before the formation of IG Farben. The CEO of Farben became head of the new Bayer Corporation; in 1954 Bayer set up a new company in the United States with Monsanto to produce and sell Polyurethanes.
The new company was called MOBAY.

Bayer… along with helping Monsanto become a chemical giant, and selling polyurethanes in the United States via MOBAY, also taught Monsanto everything it knew about chemicals, especially pesticides. Monsanto became privy to hidden study documents. You see Zyklon B the gas used in extermination camps was a pesticide originally. It was cyanide based and needed a warning odor added because cyanide was hard to recognize. Its subtle almond smell needed a bit of enhancement, except when it was sold to the extermination camps. There was no odor to the gas in the camps. This was material evidence to the investigators of their knowledge of what was going on inside the camps.

Bayer has changed and is larger than ever. Bayer Crop Science is an extension of the original Bayer. It is an Agricultural giant. Bayer has a lot of history in their vaults, they inherited it from IG Farben, and the other corporations after the break-up, including scientific studies, pesticides trials on humans; records, data from the atrocities of the camps, the list goes on. Some of the most horrendous human studies using chemicals are still available.

Michael

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Anyone still believe "they" are just sorcerer's apprentices and don't know what they are doing?

[Hervé]

Suddenly...

... walls and a room appeared around the elephant:

Lawsuit challenges US FDA on dental amalgam mercury

HazMatt
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:01 CST

The lawsuit suggests that the largest user of dental amalgam is the U.S. government, which uses amalgam for welfare recipients, prisoners, those residing on Indian Reservations, and the military, serving largely low-income people, including women and children, who are given no other options.

A new lawsuit claims that despite growing evidence of harm caused by dental amalgam, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to delay the protection of public health against mercury tooth fillings.

The case has a number of plaintiffs, including the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology, which claim that the FDA has failed to respond within a reasonable time to petitions calling for either a formal ban of dental amalgam use, or placement in FDA's Class III, which requires: 1) additional restrictions for vulnerable individuals; 2) more stringent proof of safety; and 3) an Environmental Impact Statement.

According to attorney James M. Love, who filed the lawsuit on March 5, 2014, American consumers and dental professionals are being misled by the American Dental Association (ADA) -- the largest and most powerful advocate for continued amalgam use.

"The ADA has misrepresented FDA's lack of regulation as proof of safety, and continues to use this toxic dental filling, despite scientifically demonstrated risks," said Love. "Most individuals remain unaware that those 'silver' fillings, prevalently used as a dental restoration and covered by insurance policies, consist of 45-55 per cent metallic mercury, and that there are health and environmental risks associated with those fillings."

Top scientists have repeatedly warned the FDA of the risk of harm caused by dental fillings, the lawsuit notes. For example, a February 2014 study, "[n]ew science challenges old notion that mercury dental amalgam is safe," published in the peer-reviewed journal, Biometals, uses the same studies cited by FDA in 2006, demonstrating that children are particularly at risk for mercury poisoning.

The lawsuit suggests that the largest user of dental amalgam is the U.S. government, which uses amalgam for welfare recipients, prisoners, those residing on Indian Reservations, and the military, serving largely low-income people, including women and children, who are given no other options.