Catherine J. Frompovich
vactruth.com
06/18/2010

How many times have you gone to the dentist and had dental caries (cavities) repaired with silver (amalgam) fillings? Most folks in the USA experience that procedure and consider it safe. But is it really? That’s why after all these years the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled an advisory panel meeting to be held December 14 and 15, 2010 to discuss the issue: Safety of dental amalgams or silver fillings. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm215061.htm

Finally, after all these years FDA is getting around to discussing whether amalgam fillings are safe for pregnant women, their fetuses, and children. I’m skeptical that the American Dental Association (founded 1859) will allow FDA to restrict the use of silver fillings. Why? Well, how does a profession wipe a two-hundred-year-old egg off its collective face?

Silver fillings (amalgams) were first introduced in the early 1800s in France. However, in the late 1970s several European countries started having second thoughts about amalgam fillings and recommended them as unsafe for pregnant women. Over the years more scientific information confirmed the need to eliminate them, which Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have done. By law dentists in those countries no longer can provide silver fillings. Furthermore, dental insurance plans no longer reimburse or pay for amalgam fillings in those countries. Austria and Germany have restrictions on amalgam fillings for pregnant women, children, kidney disease patients, persons with mercury sensitivity, and when mercury will come in contact with other metals in the mouth, e.g., braces and bridgework, since piezoelectric currents in the mouth can be created when mercury and other metals coexist.

 

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) define mercury as an environmental toxin. So does the World Health Organization (WHO). Are you aware that crematoriums in the U.S. are required to capture mercury gases from cadavers with amalgam fillings upon cremation because of the toxicity? So how can such fillings be placed into humans’ mouths when they are alive and not be considered toxic? That doesn’t make much sense, does it? Toxic at any time is toxic all the time!

According to EPA’s web site http://www.epa.gov/hg/about.htm

Health effects of mercury. Mercury exposure at high levels can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system of people of all ages. … However, it has been demonstrated that high levels of methylmercury in the bloodstream of unborn babies and young children may harm the developing nervous system, making the child less able to think and learn.

Methylmercury [CH₃Hg] is the most toxic form. Now can you understand why so many European countries have banned mercury in amalgam fillings? And here in the USA, the dental profession and FDA are acting like some Johnny-come-latelies.

Another form of mercury, ethylmercury [C₂H₅Hg⁺], commonly is used in medical formulations like Thimerosal in vaccines, which the pharmaceutical industry claims is a less toxic form of mercury and not bioaccumulative. Toxic is toxic! A normal flu shot usually contains 25 micrograms of ethylmercury as Thimerosal, a neurotoxin.

In August 2005 Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, published a study, Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Methylmercury or Vaccines Containing Thimerosal, by researchers at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, which reported the following:

…the average brain-to-blood concentration ratio was slightly higher for the thimerosal-exposed monkeys. … A higher percentage of the total Hg in the brain was in the form of inorganic Hg for the thimerosal-exposed monkeys (34% vs. 7%).

The researchers concluded:

Knowledge of the toxicokinetics and developmental toxicity of thimerosal is needed to afford a meaningful assessment of the developmental effects of thimerosal-containing vaccines. http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.7712

Getting back to mercury in amalgam fillings, mercury comprises 50 percent of a eutectic mixture with the balance consisting of copper, tin, silver, and zinc in a powder or shavings. A practicing dentist, who switched from amalgam fillings to composites, confirmed this information. But here’s the scary part about amalgam fillings that this dentist noted: After an amalgam/silver filling has been in the mouth for several years and removed, the measurable mercury content is between 24 and 26 percent. When originally placed into the mouth, the mercury content was 50 percent. Where did the 26 to 24 percent of the missing mercury go? Can you guess? By the chewing or mastication action of the teeth, mercury was released into the person’s mouth, blood, and body tissues. Just think about how close the mouth is to a person’s brain. Place your tongue at the roof of your mouth and realize that on the other side is your brain!

It is of utmost importance that professional lobbying and vested interests not sway FDA in December during their assessment of the hazards of mercury in dental fillings. If EPA, OSHA, and NIOSH regulate mercury as a toxin—a neurotoxin and probable carcinogen [EPA has classified methyl mercury as Group C, possible human carcinogen, based on inadequate data in humans and limited evidence of carcinogenicity in animals. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/mercury.html]—then any form of mercury ought to be considered toxic by the FDA. Metallurgical science should prevail uniformly in all government oversight agencies. FDA can’t “cherry pick” scientific information to perpetuate a professional error.

Lisa Schnirring
CIDRAP News
05/26/2010

Legal issues that came into play during the H1N1 flu pandemic provided a useful look at how laws can help ease the availability of the vaccine, but in some instances can work against immunization efforts, according to a legal expert who has analyzed events that unfolded over the past year.

Encouraging the production of the vaccine while addressing public fears about immunization requires a delicate balance, Wendy E. Parmet, JD, wrote today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Parmet is a professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.

Acknowledging the fragile market for vaccines, since the 1976 swine flu vaccine program Congress has connected liability protection for vaccine makers with a compensation system for patients, she wrote, referring to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which set up a special vaccine court to streamline claims and quickly compensate injured patients.

When the H5N1 avian influenza threat focused efforts on pandemic preparedness, Congress, with the 2005 passage of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, combined tort immunity with no-fault compensation for injured patients, she added. The provisions take effect when federal officials declare a public health emergency.

While the PREP Act, along with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency provisions, removed legal obstacles to the rapid production and distribution of the pandemic vaccine, “the effect of these laws on the public’s willingness to be vaccinated, however, is uncertain,” Parmet maintained.

Read the rest of the article.

Jeffry John Aufderheide
vactruth.com
05/25/2010

Part I | Part II

History books proclaim with absolute certainty that the pinnacle of public health is defined by the polio vaccine program. Disease finally conquered by science. The polio effort was a benchmark for the public to mentally accept the concept “shots prevent disease.” However, hidden to most Americans was an elaborate Public Relations scheme being carefully applied by Rockefeller interests intended for social control.

Three central institutions where at the forefront of the polio war: the Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation, the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis or March of Dimes, and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Through these foundations and organizations, polio transmogrified into a major childhood disease. The massive public relations campaign pushing the polio agenda targeting the American people was organized by Carl Byoir, propagandist extraordinaire.

“When you set out to influence and persuade people to action, when the campaign is tremendous, nation-wide [sic] in scope, don’t think that it just happens; something has to be done to get millions of people to think the thought you want them to think and then to get them to act on that thought.”

-Carl Byoir

The PR campaign was intended to tug at the heart string of Americans by using stars such as Sammy Davis Junior, Tennessee Ernie, Lucile Ball and others. Why would the Rockefeller Institute, March of Dimes, and the Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation use someone as powerful and costly as Carl Byoir simply to propagandize a childhood disease?

The big picture is that the Polio scare campaign would provide the everlasting foundation for all the future vaccine programs. Is it by chance the hypnotic words “life saving” and “effective” became synonymous with the word “vaccine” after the polio campaign?

The motive of these organizations is perhaps the best understood by author and researcher Lily E. Kay. She wrote about the motives of the Rockefeller family in her book, “The Molecular Vision of Life.” On page 8 she wrote, “The motivation behind the enormous investment in the new (“Science of Man”) agenda was to develop the human sciences as a comprehensive explanatory and applied framework for social control grounded in the natural, medical, and social sciences.” (notation mine)

“Applied social control”, simply stated, is the misuse of any branch of commerce, science, law, politics, or religion for compliance to an ulterior motive held by those in power. Examples, such as the Rockefeller-backed Federal Reserve Bank, is a perfect model of applied economic social control.

Lily Kay continues to elaborate, “With that agenda, the new biology (originally named “psychobiology”) was erected on the bedrock of the physical sciences in order to rigorously explain and eventually control the fundamental mechanisms governing human behavior, placing a particularly strong emphasis on (eugenics) heredity.” (notation on eugenics mine)

Ye shall know them by their fruits.

The success of the polio vaccine program was instrumental in implementing what euphemistically has become known as the “Gold Standard” in allopathic medicine: The American Childhood Vaccine Schedule. The vaccines listed within this program are predicated on the sole belief that polio was eradicated with a vaccine.

With strategically planned and executed applied social control systems as the backdrop, what are some of the unintended consequences of adopting a policy of “shots preventing disease?”

Firstly, parents are consistently, relentlessly, and blatantly lied to that their children must be up to date on their vaccines in order to attend school. Rarely are they informed that they have the option to apply for a vaccine exemption (religious, medical or philosophical depending on the state). However, new pharmaceutical-backed School Based Health Clinics are being implemented around the country and parents may soon find that they no longer have a choice in the matter.

Secondly, what about going to the pediatrician? The “Polio Question” is unsheathed immediately by many “brave” pediatricians to pierce through any parental doubt on vaccination. They constantly remind parents of the graphical pictures with children in iron lungs; memories which are etched in our collective consciousness. Parents are then scolded, “You don’t want polio to come back, do you?” When many sincere parents continue to ask questions the pediatrician cannot answer, they are encouraged to be promptly slain.

Third, the “Polio Question” has become a potent weapon of social ridicule. Parents attempting to offer “valid opinions”, empirical observations, and anecdotal stories of their personal experiences with their vaccine injured children have become the object of ridicule. They are marginalized as not “adequately educated” by a bonafide, scientific medical institution. More over, “rebellious parents” are regularly accused of child neglect and free loading on society. They are maliciously threatened with the heavy hand of Child Protective Services and the Judicial System. It matters not that a majority of the parents and family members who are actively questioning vaccines have observed first hand a life threatening reaction to vaccines.

Which brings us to the most egregious strategy of vaccine compliance: persecuting families with vaccine injured children. In the United Kingdom it is called Munchhausen by Proxy. In the United States it is called Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). How many parents have had their children snatched away by social services after an adverse reaction from a vaccine? Victimized parents have likened this to organized kidnapping.

Wisdom can be found in the adage, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The new undercurrent in today’s society worships the type of science and authority that brought us the polio vaccine. Thus, understanding the motive of those in power is a primary principle.

After all, Dorthy didn’t discover who the “real” Wizard of Oz was until she pulled back the curtain and found one man pulling the levers. Throwing back the curtains of the Polio Vaccine Program, we will certainly see the Rockefeller’s masquerading as Oz.

LeftBrainRightBrain
05/14/2010

The first of the vaccine court autism cases has been denied by the United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit. The Vaccine court (or, more accurately, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims) grouped the autism claims into an “Omnibus”, something like a class action case, where evidence to prove vaccines cause autism was presented in a few “test cases”, rather than hearing all the cases individually. The Omnibus Autism Proceeding heard six test cases, three on the theory that the MMR vaccine causes autism and three on the theory that thimerosal (a mercury containing perservative) causes autism.

The appeals decision is for the test case of Yates Hazelhurst, one of the MMR test cases. The case was summarized by the Special Master who decided the case:

[P]etitioners assert that the measles component of the MMR vaccine causes an immune dysfunction that impairs the vaccinee’s ability to clear the measles virus. Unable to properly clear the measles virus from the body, the vaccinee experiences measles virus persistence which leads to chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal system and, in turn, chronic inflammation in the brain. Petitioners argue that the inflammation in the brain causes neurological damage that manifests as autism.

Read the rest of the article.

*Note: Please notice that what is mentioned in the article is to keep the immunization records up to date. This doesn’t necessarily mean the vaccines. The child’s exemption is included in the immunization record as well but this fact is conveniently left out. It’s a sleight of hand.

Matthew Strader
Caledon Enterprise
05/04/2010

Seventy-two students were suspended from Robert F. Hall Secondary School in Caledon East on Wednesday, April 28. The reason was outdated immunization records. And the process proved extremely confusing, and frustrating, to a number of parents.

ReDeana Montgomery was one of those parents. Her daughter was suspended even after she had contacted the Region of Peel, filled out what she thought were the required forms, and received a reference number that led her to believe her daughter would not be suspended.

But the process was not over, and the lesson for parents is to go ahead and call the Region of Peel’s immunization department.

“It was all perplexing to me,” said Montgomery. “They had sent home notices saying that (her) immunization was not up to date, and last year sent home the same notice, so we updated everything and got told she doesn’t need anything for 10 years, then this happened.”

After she was suspended, Montgomery’s daughter was told by the Robert F. Hall administration staff that she had to leave the school, and there was nothing they could do for them. When her daughter was left out in the cold, with no possibility of a ride because mom worked in Orangeville, Montgomery’s frustrations boiled over.

“The school called and said she has to get off the property. They said they can’t do anything with it, and that I would have to deal with the Region of Peel. And the Region of Peel said they have no records of any needles she has received since 1994, even though I got a reference number online on April 16,” explained an exasperated Montgomery. “It just seemed ridiculous. How could she get to Grade 10 with no records?”

Montgomery did receive additional notice that her daughter may be suspended, according to the Region of Peel’s records, and there summation of this type of incident (while considering a hypothetical because they could not speak to the specific case) was that parents may not realize the level of responsibility that is on their shoulders.

Montgomery had admittedly assumed that when their family doctor immunized her daughter in the past, those records would go to the regional offices for updating of her records.

Not so, said the Region.

“Physicians are not the ones who report the child’s immunization to Peel public health, it’s the parents responsibility,” said Dr. Monica Hau, Community Medicine Resident for the Region of Peel.

Underneath an accepted reference number is the warning, “Your reference number indicates that your record was submitted to Peel Public Health. It does not indicate that your child’s record is complete or that your child meets the legislated requirements to attend school.

“Keep your immunization record up-to-date with Peel Public Health each time your child receives immunizations.”

And here is where the problem for these 70 plus parents may have begun.

While Montgomery submitted her child’s 2009 immunization records to the Region of Peel, according to the Region’s immunization department, it did not complete her records. They contacted Montgomery again, before the cut off date, and warned of this, and were only able to rescind her daughter’s suspension when Montgomery provided, by phone, complete records from 1994.

Hau explained that miscommunication’s can also happen with different specific vaccines. While Montgomery’s daughter may have received the warning for one in 2009, and when that was updated, she was not in danger of being suspended, a ten-year-old vaccine, like a booster, could have hypothetically been the missing link in 2010.

“The parent goes online, updates to the best of their knowledge not realizing that we’re missing other doses of that vaccine,” said Hau. “Make sure to follow the Ontario immunization schedule. Based on their age, they could be due for something different.”

Hau also admitted that it is a common problem, as did Dufferin–Peel Catholic School Board Trustee Frank DiCosola.

But, DiCosola said that it is something the school board hopes to address in the future and that parents need to be more vigilant.

“There can be a number of problems. Parents can have opted out at certain levels, or kids who are sick on particular days, it’s not recorded in their cards. It could be the child was away, could be new move-ins, could have come from other areas that didn’t report it, and Peel health unit doesn’t know it,” said DiCosola.

“Some parents are bringing it to the school, but our school administration is not qualified to authenticate documents, it doesn’t work that way.

“Parents were better in terms of responding, but our school administration has been working with this since February. Letters going home to parents, announcements in the school, to the kids, and principals calling down to the kids, and we still had a list of 72 kids. How much can you do?

“We don’t have a perfect system, and we’re going to try and tweak it, but we’re still going to have parents who aren’t going to comply, and then it’s oh, why is this happening?”

Peel Public Health and their Immunization Department can be contacted through the Peel Region website (www.peelregion.ca) or by calling.