Dear All,

As fate would have it, two related things happened to me yesterday within a couple of hours of one another. I always take such “coincidences” seriously!

The first event is that I watched a DVD sent to me by Dr. David Kennedy. He warned me that it would knock my socks off - he was right my socks are now splattered around my house! The second came in an email from Dr. Albert Burgstahler.

The DVD consisted of a presentation given by Mark R. Geier, MD, PhD and his son David A. Geier, BA at a 2005 meeting of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT). This presentation begins with excerpts from a TV news series produced by a Detroit station, which very convincingly demonstrated that doctors from a local university, the Michigan Department of Health and the CDC were lying about the dangers - and what they knew about the dangers  - of thimerosal a mercury containing preservative used in vaccines. What is so delicious about this is all these spokespersons looked and sounded so convincing, so decent and so caring when interviewed. The kind of people you would trust with your kids. My goodness they even looked like those convincing, decent and caring dentists, state health officials and CDC spokespersons who lie (”spin” if you wish to be more delicate) to us on a routine basis about the safety of water fluoridation regardless of how much water people drink!

The Geiers then give a masterful and devastating summary of their own work and the work of others which convincingly shows - using the governments own data bases - that thimerosal in vaccines has caused an epidemic of neurological problems in children including autism. I should point out that the Geiers were skeptics on this matter - until they did their own research. Moreover, they do not oppose vaccination as such, only the use of this wretched preservative. Remember children via these accumulated vaccines were (and some still are) getting - injected directly into their bloodstream - over 100 times the safe level as prescribed by the US EPA for ingestion!

The Geiers’ research has included some elegant epidemiological and biochemical studies. Towards the end of the tape they took their biochemical understanding of this disease - which seems to hover around the inability of a subset of the population to get rid of the mercury that they are exposed to -  and tried treating kids in ways that compensate for the suspected deficits (a combination of cysteiene and chelating drugs), and low and behold some of the children had their symptoms relieved.

By citing memos from government scientists they also showed that even while their agencies - including the CDC - were declaring no health problems associated with the use of thimeosal, they knew very well that there were. Does that sound familiar?

In this father and son team we are witnessing a formidable combination of intelligence, integrity and perseverence. It is the stuff of which Nobel prizes are made. However, right now they are the pariahs of the medical establishment because they threaten the interests of the pharmaceutical industry which faces massive liabilities because of the damage and distress they have caused thouands of children and their families. But as FAN bulletin #566 made clear, it isn’t just the pharmaceutical industries which are to blame. When one of the vacccine manufacturers offered to suply flu vaccines without thimerosal, the CDC in 2004 refused to recommend thimerosal-free flu shots for infants and pregnant women.

The second event. Shortly after viewing this DVD, I received an email from Dr. Albert Burgstahler which contained a pdf copy of an article by the very same Geier father and son team. Their article was published in the Spring issue of the Journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (JAPS). A JAPS press release on this article is printed below.

In this article the Geiers convincingly demonstrate that just as there was a highly significant correlation with an increase in autism and other neurological defects with the increased used of thimerosal containing vaccines in the late 90’s, there is now a significant decrease in autism and neurological defects in the 2000’s related to the declining use of thimerosal.

A pdf file of the full article “Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines” can be obtained by going to http://www.jpands.org/jpands1101.htm> .

Meanwhile, on the fluoridation front, I will be making two radio appearances this week. Here are the details:

1) This afternoon (Sunday April 23), between 2 and 3 pm, EST, I will appear on the program “Nutrition on the Line,” hosted by Luise Light . This program is broadcast on a fairly new community radio station in Vermont, WOOL-LP. It  broadcasts over 100.1 fm, and shows can also be heard (from anywhere) over the station’s website: . To learn more about nutritionist Dr. Luise Light go to .

2) On Tuesday (April 25) at approximately 9:30 am EST I will be on the Deborah Ray Show on Healthy Talk Radio, in a segment hosted by by Dr. Bob Kulacz. The segment begins (9:00 am EST) with a discussion between Dr. Kulacz and Dr. Boyd Haley on root canal toxins. Dr. Boyd Haley has been a very prominent researcher on the toxicity of mercury. For more details of how to listen to this program go to

Paul Connett

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March 2, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Medical Journal: Autism Rates Decline as Mercury Removed from Childhood Vaccines

Independent Analysis Refutes Institute of Medicine Claims of “No Relationship” While Mercury Still Used in Flu & Other Vaccines

TUCSON, AZ — A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite governmentâs previous claims to the contrary.

An article in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS.org) shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply ö by as much as 35%.

Using the government’s own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDCâs Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in “Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines.”

The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22%, and a decrease from the projections of 35%.

This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC. While not willing to either rule out or to corroborate a relationship between mercury and autism, the IOM soft-pedaled its findings, and decided no more studies were needed. The authors write: “The IOM stated that the evidence favored rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism, that such a relationship was not biologically plausible, and that no further studies should be conducted to evaluate it.”

As more and more vaccines were added to the mandatory schedule of vaccines for children, the dose of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal rose, so that the cumulative dose injected into babies exceeded the toxic threshold set by many government agencies. Mercury is known to damage nerve cells in very low concentrations.

The concern about vaccines may actually be underrated, as it is generally acknowledged that the voluntary reporting of such disorders has resulted in vast underreporting of new cases. For example, the Iowa state legislature banned thimerosal from all vaccines administered there after it documented a 700-fold increase in that state alone. California followed suit, and 32 states are considering doing so. Up until about 1989 pre-school children got only 3 vaccines (polio, DPT, MMR). By 1999 the CDC recommended a total of 22 vaccines to be given before children reach the 1st grade, including Hepatitis B, which is given to newborns within the first 24 hours of birth. Many of these vaccines contained mercury. In the 1990s approximately 40 million children were injected with mercury-containing vaccines.

The cumulative amount of mercury being given to children in this number of vaccines would be an amount 187 times the EPA daily exposure limit

Between 1989 and 2003, there has been an explosion of autism. The incidence of autism (and other related disorders) went from about 1 in 2,500 children to 1 in every 166. Currently there are more than a half million children in the U.S. that have autism. This disorder has devastated families.

In 1999, on the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics and U.S. Public Health Service, thimerosal was removed from most childhood vaccines as a “precautionary” measure - i.e. without admitting to any causal link between thimerosal and autism.

The Geiers conclude that mercury continues to be a concern, as it is still added to some of the most commonly-used vaccines, such as those for flu:

“Despite its removal from many childhood vaccines, thimerosal is still routinely added to some formulations of influenza vaccine administered to U.S. infants, as well as to several other vaccines (e.g. tetanus-diphtheria and monovalent tetanus) administered to older children and adults. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) retreated from the stated 1999 goal of the AAP and the PHS to remove thimerosal from U.S. vaccines as soon as possible·As a result, assessing the safety of TCVs [thimerosal-containing vaccines] is a matter of significant importance.”

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NOTE: The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a non-partisan professional association founded in 1943.

Prepublication copy of article posted at http://www.jpands.org/jpands1101.htm which includes links to the VAERS and CDDS databases.