Kenneth Stoller

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  10 Autism Controversies

  I was disappointed to read what Chew and Raymaker had to say about being distracted by those in the community that think there is a link between vaccine and autism. I certainly hope this point of view is not representative of the Obama transition team.
  
  The photo of those two hands reminded me of the children that came to my pediatric office in the 1990's presneting with symptoms of having the skin peeling off their hands and sometimes feet, the latter being less noticeable. It wasn’t bothering them; it was bothering their parents who knew it wasn’t normal to have skin peel off your hands. All I could tell concerned parents was that this must have something to do with the body trying to rid itself of something that didn’t agree with it, but I was clueless at the time.
  
  Years later I realized I was looking at mild cases of a clinical entity that had completely disappeared from the pages of medical textbooks. This was a mild form of Pinks Disease. Pinks Disease (Acrodynia) was the name given to a form of mercury poisoning young children developed in the first half of the 20th century after they had been given a teething powder that contained a chloride salt of mercury. It was very effective, because the mercury killed the nerve tissue in the gums of the teething babies. The skin on their hands and feet would peel revealing the pink new skin underneath. So, why was I seeing a mild form of Pink’s Disease in the 1990s?
  
  I started to perform provocative urine toxic metal tests on the children in my practice, especially children with neuro-behavioral disorders. I found that most of the children I tested had abnormal levels of lead or mercury. In 2006, I was granted an audience at the CDC, specifically with James Pirkle, MD, PhD, Deputy Director for Science, National Center for Environment Health.
  
  I presented my findings including showing how when the metals were removed affected children improved on neurocognitive function measures. Dr. Pirkle personally told me this was important work and many of his collegues voiced there concern to me that especially mercury levels were of great concern to them.  It is an accepted fact that the umbilical cord blood level of mercury is so high in American babies that the impact on their intelligence is costing the US economy 8.7 billion dollars a year.
  
  Regretably, Dr. Pirkle and his collegues do not set policy at the CDC nor do they control the purse strings at that agency. To say that those that do have control alos have a mixed agenda would be an understatment.
  
  Regarding all those so often quoted epidemiological studies that have not shown a link between vaccines and autism, one must take a step back and have a little discernement. Those 15 well positioned studies in the literature do not prove that the vaccine-autism connection is a myth.
  
  The Institute of Medicine’s final 2004 report on vaccines and autism recognized that without biological markers of autism subpopulations at risk, further epidemiology would not be helpful. In other words, they did not say that vaccines don’t cause autism—-since without knowing what autism is, science cannot determine what it is not.
  
  It is highly probably that there are multiple autism(s) with multiple genetic and environmental triggers (mercury and pesticides being just two on the list).
  
  This simple truth about autism greatly reduces the stastical meaning of even the largest epidemiological studies.
  
  Clearly, there is post-vaccination encephalopathy, but what are the mechanisms? Is there any treatment? Can it look like “autism?” There are many unknowns here, as no concerted effort has been made to understand the scope of post-vaccination encephalopathy.
  
  Since medicine does not understand post-vaccination encephalopathy, and we don’t know what factors could increase or decrease its incidence (thimerosal, aluminum, live virus combinations, diet/metabolic factors, multiplicity of vaccines, pesticides), it would behoove us all to find out, not pretend the problem does not exist or that it is a distraction.
  
  We can now perform genetic screening to determine who may react poorly to smallpox vaccine—this strategy might also benefit children with genetic susceptibilities that cause them to react poorly to other vaccine.
  
  This is much bigger than just autism,  there are several studies linking vaccination practices to autoimmune disorders-- like the recent Manitoba study demonstrating that a short delay in DTP administration reduces the rate of asthma by 50% (Delayed DTP immunizations and the risk for pediatric atopy and asthma .  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , Volume 113 , Issue 2 , Page S304 C . Johnson) and the AAN Neurology publication showing that one brand of HepB vaccine increases the risk of childhood MS by almost 3 times (Hernan, M. Neurology, Sept. 14, 2004; vol 63: pp 772-723.).
  
  There is a void of randomized controlled trials to support the continued growth of the current CDC/AAP vaccine schedule, and parents are beginning to ask questions about the science and there is no science.
  
  What do you think would happen if the man on the street learned that many live virus vaccines are contaminated with reverse transciptase and avian retro virus? What does that mean? It means that we are jabbing children with material that could cause viral DNA to be written into their DNA and cause cancer several years later.
  
  We can go into denial about this but that doesn't change the reality. A fortress of denial surrounds this issue and I hope there is someone on the Obama staff that hasn't yet swallowed the Kool-Aid.
  
  www.BodiesinRebellion.com was set up to help deliver this concern to the President Elect.
  
  We have choice if we want the human animal to continue on this planet. We have to really think about what that means, because one cannot fool with Mother Nature and not take responsibility for doing so. While adaptable, we are a relatively fragile life form and have been rather blessed to survive on this wonderful planet up to this point, but the Earth will survive, and it will survive just fine without us on it. We are one of the newest species on this planet and as the saying goes, “Last one hired; first one fired.” This is our fate if we don’t wake up.
  
  K Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM