On Apr 22, 9:10=A0am, Ilena Rose <B...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> From Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:www.ilenarose.blogspot.com
>
> http://www.townsendletter.com/Oct2007/EDautismstoller1007.htm
>
> Throwing Children into Oncoming Traffic: The Truth about Autism
> by Kenneth Stoller, MD, FAAP with Anne McElroy Dachel
>
> Online publication only
>
> I have been a practicing pediatrician for over 20 years. I saw my
> first child with autism in the early 1990s. Before that, I had never
> seen an autistic child, nor had I seen an autistic child in all my
> years at school. The boy was four years old, and you could see the
> frustration in his face as he wanted to speak, but nothing
> intelligible would come from his mouth except shrieks of anguish. As I
> studied his tortured face, it was as if there was an old-time
> telephone switchboard operator inside his head trying to plug in the
> correct phone cables but not being able to complete the call. This
> family had known me from an old practice in another city, and they had
> traveled to see me because they trusted me and were looking for
> answers that no one seemed to have for them. Yet I too had no answers,
> and I could see the mom was greatly disappointed. After the family
> left my office, I poured over a few dusty textbooks and wondered if I
> had just seen a very rare disorder, a disorder that affected one child
> in 10,000 children: autism.
>
> I had been involved in pediatrics for a decade by the time I saw this
> boy, and it wasn't as if I had no experience working with rare
> disorders. For example, I had been able to identify a boy with
> Fragile-X syndrome, and his mom ending up starting the Fragile-X
> sup****t group at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. I had noticed
> there was a strange upswing in children with attention disorders and
> impulsivity problems. I wasn't a neurologist, but had studied with one
> of the finest at UCLA. While I was still a pediatric resident, I spent
> time in his office where he helped me study the parade of unusual
> maladies that was starting to afflict children. I considered myself a
> closet neurologist, because that was what I had really wanted to
> specialize in =96 not pediatrics =96 but during my neurology rotation in
> medical school I learned some discouraging news. The attending
> neurologist, whom I greatly admired, had taken me on rounds for the
> first time, and I watched him brilliantly explain to the family of a
> stroke patient how he had figured out where in the brain the blood
> clot had lodged. Then he stood up and walked out of the room, and I
> asked him what therapy he was going to prescribe for the patient so he
> could recover from his stroke. "Therapy?" he said. "There is no
> therapy."
>
> Well, I scratched neurology off my list. Diagnosis was only meaningful
> if you could offer a treatment, and it seemed neurology had few
> treatments to offer. My second patient with autism came to me in the
> mid-1990s, but to my relief, the purpose of the visit was only to
> treat worms. I dutifully prescribed the medicine for pinworms and went
> on to my next patient. Later that afternoon, I received a call from
> the autistic boy's mom who wanted to know what was that medicine I had
> given her son for pinworms. Her boy was starting to make eye contact,
> show affection, and communicate with his family. She said it was
> amazing! I told her I didn't really didn't know what was in the
> pinworm pill but immediately prescribed enough pills for her son to
> take every day for a month (normally you only take one or two pills to
> treat pinworms).
>
> I called up the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the pinworm
> pill and spoke to one of their technical staff. They told me the pill
> worked by blocking the trans****t of molecules of a certain size from
> crossing cell membranes, so in the case of the hapless pinworms they
> were unable to absorb the sugars they feed upon in the lower
> intestines of their victims.
>
> What did that have to do with this boy's newly found improved
> behavior? Either one of two things were going on: 1) the drug was
> either blocking a molecule that shouldn't be passing across the gut to
> the blood, and then the brain and that molecule was having a drug-like
> effect on the brain; or 2) the drug was blocking a molecule that
> normally crossed from the gut into the blood; however, in certain
> children, these molecules had a strange drug-like effect.
>
> I made several calls across the country to find a researcher who might
> be interested in this serendipitous finding that could be an im****tant
> clue into this disease, because I had not found any studies or
> information regarding the involvement of the gut in this disease.
> Unfortunately, no one I talked to was interested.
>
> Testifying to Congress
> In May 2004, I had been invited to testify in front of the Government
> Reform Committee to discuss new developments in treating children with
> Autism Spectrum Disorders. I had been invited because of the work I
> was doing with hyperbaric oxygen in treating brain-injured children,
> including fetal alcohol syndrome. In hyperbaric oxygen treatment,
> oxygen is given under pressure in chambers used to treat scuba divers
> who get the bends. Several other physicians and I had found that
> hyperbaric oxygen returned functionality to the brains of affected
> children.
>
> Sitting next to me was a physician who told the story of how his son
> become autistic after receiving vaccines and how he discovered his son
> was retaining toxic heavy metals, specifically mercury. Over the
> course of a year, this physician had given his son a chemical to pull
> out the mercury, and his son began speaking again and, in fact, jumped
> on his dad's lap and addressed the Committee members, having been
> restored to be a healthy boy without any signs of his autism.
>
> In the 1990s, I had known there was a problem with many vaccines
> because they contained the preservative thimerosal (50% mercury), and
> I had discouraged many parents from having their children vaccinated
> with vaccines containing thimerosal. There is no safe level of
> mercury, and it didn't make sense to inject the most toxic
> non-radioactive element on the planet into children. Still I had never
> made the connection between autism and mercury. (I knew what
> thimerosal was because while I was in college, my brother had a very
> bad reaction to the thimerosal that used to be used in contact lens
> solution.) I was taken aback that something so obvious had not
> registered with me, but I didn't realize that my physician colleagues
> and I had been subjected to a disinformation campaign to make us think
> there was no connection between mercury and autism. It has been known
> for sometime that mercury was causing autism, but someone has been
> running interference. The question is, who was running interference?
>
> In February 2007, the watchdog agency on America's health, the Centers
> for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), made the official
> announcement that a breathtaking one in 150 kids is autistic in the
> US. If you go to the CDC website on autism
> (http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism),
you will see lots of pictures of
> smiling happy children with autism, and we'd be told that autism
> spectrum disorders are "a group of developmental disabilities defined
> by significant impairments in social interaction and communication and
> the presence of unusual behaviors and interests." You won't be told
> that, for many parents, autism is a nightmare from which they never
> wake up. "Significant impairments" can mean that a child is violent
> and self-abusive, non-verbal, and physically sick. You won't be told
> that this is a medical disease in which most autistic children have
> significant inflammation in both gut and brain including colitis,
> super-infections, and severe food allergies.
>
> Even though autism affects one in 90 boys (four boys affected for
> every girl) in the US, the CDC can't seem to tell us exactly why. The
> CDC states, "We still don't know a lot about the causes of Autism
> Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Scientists think that both genes and the
> environment play a role, and there might be many causes that lead to
> ASDs." The site also doesn't mention that only one in 10,000 children
> in the 1970s and one in 2,500 in the 1980s were autistic.
>
> The CDC site also doesn't tell us about a secret meeting that was held
> in June of 2000 in which over 50 individuals from the CDC, World
> Health Organization (WHO), National Institutes of Health (NIH),
> American Academy of Pediatrics, and many representatives from
> pharmaceutical interests discussed data from the CDC Vaccine Data Sets
> showing that the increase in mercury exposure from the stepped-up
> vaccine schedule in the 1990s caused an 11-fold increase in
> neurobehavioral disorders
> (www.autismhelpforyou.com/Simpsonwood_And_Puerto%20%20Rico.htm). What
> you will see on the CDC website is "Several studies have looked at
> whether there is a relation****p between vaccines and autism. The
> weight of the evidence indicates that vaccines are not associated with
> autism."
>
> Evidence? Someone at the CDC was "cooking the books," and what they
> told the public was not what they knew to be the case. You see, the
> CDC was put in the untenable position of helping to develop vaccines,
> mandate the vaccines, promote the vaccines, pay for their
> administration, and be responsible for their safety: ye olde fox
> watching the henhouse scenario with the inevitable untoward result.
> There will always be a problem with vaccine safety until this
> responsibility is moved out of the CDC. Today, the CDC and its vaccine
> public-relation front group's answer to any criticism is that those
> who are critical of any part of the vaccine program are motivated
> solely by a desire to destroy the vaccine program.
>
> The truth is that the CDC has been very effective in laying the
> foundation to destroy the vaccine program all by themselves, and their
> double-speak is analogous to someone saying you can't be against war
> and sup****t the troops at the same time =96 you're either for us or
> against us, etc. It is actually illegal for a federal agency to
> propagandize the American public, but that is exactly what the vaccine
> division of the CDC does. It has used the tactic of generating fear,
> and it has earned billions of dollars for this agency. Once the public
> loses trust in public health programs, it can take many years to
> regain that trust. I am reminded of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments
> that are still a cause of distrust of public health programs amongst
> black Americans.
>
> Losing the Public Trust
> The cover-up at the CDC surrounding the mercury preservative found in
> so many vaccines (up until about 2003) has had very serious and
> far-reaching implications. The children whose lives were forever
> changed by being injected with thimerosal preservative were giving us
> a global "heads-up." They were showing us that the background level of
> mercury pollution has increased to the point that it is beginning to
> take its toll on the human species, but the CDC turned its head away
> from this crisis because it conflicted with what the agency was
> promoting in the vaccine program.
>
> As I said before, mercury is the deadliest non-radioactive element on
> Earth, and thousands of tons are spewed into the environment every
> year. With each coal-fire power plant that comes on line, we are one
> step closer to exterminating human life on this planet. However,
> mercury is politically protected because of its connection with the
> fossil-fuel industry, dentistry (amalgam dental filings), and
> vaccines. Thimerosal is still in the flu vaccine for children over the
> age of three, and those children are receiving as much as half the
> dose of mercury that the child in the 1990s received. Thimerosal was
> not removed from vaccine in 1999. That was when the promise was made,
> but promises weren't kept. Thimerosal is also in the meningitis
> vaccine.
>
> Lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb cost the US
> $8.7 billion a year in lost-earnings potential according to a study
> done by the Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the
> Environment (http://fusion.mssm.edu/media/content.cfm?storynum=3D252).
> If it were publicly acknowledged that mercury pollution was the
> trigger for the autism epidemic, this number would be in the trillions
> of dollars. One in six children is born to mothers with dangerous
> levels of mercury in their blood =96 perhaps the same one in six that
> the CDC admits have a neurobehavioral disorder.
>
> Our regulatory agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration
> (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have been taken
> over by the very industries they were mandated to regulate. The
> revolving door between industry and top-level appointees at these
> regulatory agencies has eliminated many of the normal safeguards we
> have relied on for our protection. There is no disputing the numbers.
> Last month, the Tonawanda News in New York re****ted that "cases of
> autism in the state jumped from fewer than 2,000 in 1992 to 9,500 in
> 2003." Even worse was the number of affected children in New York
> schools in 2005-2006, according to the Department of Education. New
> York's autism total had increased to 12,257.
>
> Maybe what we really need to be made aware of is what the eventual
> cost of autism will be to the US. The Autism Society of America tells
> us that autism is growing by ten percent to 17% a year. They also say
> that it currently costs $90 billion a year, and that number is
> projected to increase to $200-400 billion annually in ten more years.
> A Harvard study out last year put the cost of lifetime sup****t
> conservatively at $3.2 million per individual.
>
> April was Autism Awareness month, but why are we only asking for
> awareness and not for answers? This is a glaring omission when we're
> talking about so many affected children. Awareness, treatment, and
> identification are critical but so is preventing autism.
> If we were talking about children going blind, think how obscene the
> following would sound:
>
> The number of children diagnosed with blindness is rapidly increasing.
> According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention,
> nearly one in every 150 US children is blind. These numbers are
> startling,
> and this disability is affecting more and more families. Twenty years
> ago, blindness was a very rare case. Today, blindness is becoming a
> frightening statistic in every community. April is Blindness Awareness
> Month, and I encourage everyone to take this op****tunity to learn more
> about this disability=85
>
> It would be absurd to relate this information about blindness without
> giving any explanation about what was causing it. Everyone would be
> demanding answers, and I dare say there would be protests in the
> streets to say the least.
>
> The CDC and Autism
> CDC director Julie Gerberding announced the new autism rate of one in
> every 150 children with a flourish. She said that while there are more
> kids being diagnosed with autism, it doesn't mean autism is
> necessarily on the rise. No one in the press seemed concerned that the
> CDC has been counting kids with autism for years and still can't tell
> us if there are actually more of them. After all, it's just "better
> diagnosing by doctors" and "better statistics by the Centers for
> Disease Control." And now we learn that the Autism Genome Project
> (AGP) recently uncovered evidence shows that autism is caused by
> "genetic flaws." Common sense would tell us that pu****ng children onto
> a busy street, observing that some of them were injured, and then
> looking for a genetic reason why some of them were hit defies
> credulity. No other disease in history has been subjected to the spin
> that has been put on autism.
>
> Dr. Ezra Susser, chairman of epidemiology at Columbia University's
> Mailman School of Public Health in New York indicated that he believed
> the new genetic findings would help scientists to understand how "the
> environment might lead to autism by causing genetic changes."
>
> Susser said, "It shows us that we need to think about many
> environmental factors that might influence autism."
>
> The new genetic findings on autism got a lot of coverage from major
> news outlets, and re****ts made it look like we were on the cutting
> edge of a major autism breakthrough. But let's do a reality check
> here, genes don't just spontaneously and randomly mutate all by
> themselves. There has to be an environmental agent affecting these
> genes.
>
> Some will have you believe that autism is some medical mystery that's
> always been around, one that we just have managed to get a handle on.
> So, show me the 30-year-olds with autism, the 40-year-olds with
> autism, and the 50-year-olds with autism. Guess what? They aren't
> there for the most part. The explosion in the number of children with
> autism is real, but most of the scientific community has ignored this.
> Let's face it: they have been encouraged to ignore it, and anyone
> getting close to the truth finds that they get their NIH research
> grants pulled.
>
> That's right=85science is being manipulated, so that a big lie can stay
> alive, and those culpable can remain unaccountable.
>
> It seems the scientific world isn't concerned that more children will
> be diagnosed with autism this year than with AIDS, diabetes, and
> pediatric cancer combined. News stories about autistic kids are now
> beginning to reveal the duplicity of CDC officials. These re****ts
> clearly show that this isn't something we have all the time in the
> world to theorize and ponder about.
>
> All the experts searching diligently for those elusive genetic
> mutations seem blissfully unaware of the impact of autism on our
> schools and the impending disaster, as these autistic children become
> autistic adults. Anyone looking at the graphs and charts based on
> Department of Education statistics showing the soaring autism numbers
> has got to be worried. The dramatic increase in children in our
> schools disabled with autism is a scary preview of the impact they
> will have on the Social Security System in the next five to ten years.
> Michael Ganz's Harvard study last year conservatively put the lifetime
> care cost for one autistic individual at $3.2 million. Robert Krakow
> from Lifespire gives us estimates that put the lifespan cost at
> $10.125 million per autistic individual. This figure is based on an
> annual rate for each person of $225,000 with a life expectancy of 66
> years. It doesn't include the cost for the period up to age 21.
>
> One of the many questions we need to ask ourselves is if the very
> integrity of the biosphere on this planet is in jeopardy unless there
> is an immediate curtailment of manmade mercury pollution. Coal miners
> don't look at a dead canary and blow it off or say they have just
> "gotten better at diagnosing dead canaries," or "that dead canary just
> had a genetic defect so pay no heed." Yet that is exactly analogous to
> the situation we find ourselves. We continue to pollute the planet and
> ourselves (there is no separation), yet the very governmental agency
> that would normally be taking the lead in sounding this five-alarm
> alert has been compromised and remains less than silent. Mercury
> pollution should be considered a global crime against humanity and
> against mammalian life on this planet, and there should be zero
> tolerance.
>
> If you want to know why more isn't being done for autistic children,
> why there has been a strange cover-up of the facts, then simply follow
> the mercury and those that benefit from its use.
> Response from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:
> www.ilenarose.blogspot.com
> www.ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/
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