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The Vaccine Court Was Wrong

Posted: 02/16/09 04:21 PM ET

They were disdainful and unscientific in their approach and did not gather the needed evidence. In the absence of that evidence, they should have insisted on further studies to assist in the decision-making process.

Vaccines as they are now manufactured and administered trigger autism in susceptible children.

This will be acknowledged by the AMA, the AAP, the CDC and the U.S. government at the same glacial pace these august entities followed in supporting the need to discourage smoking because it causes lung cancer, heart disease and other illness.

In the meantime, I'd like to answer a few of the comments to my post.

Zortag comments:

"Dr. Jay is not a scientist, he is a technician - that is what most MDs are. They are highly-trained, highly-skilled, and highly-compensated, but they do for people pretty much what a mechanic does for an Audi. I see no peer-reviewed publications in his biography, no additional training in biomedical research, and no specific expertise in vaccine science. He has no more credibility in telling you that vaccines are unsafe than I, a computer programmer, do."

Actually, I am a scientist. After high school, I continued my education and trained for twelve years in medical science. Subsequent to that, I have observed thousands of children and families and kept records about their health. That, Zortag, is science. Whether or not testing medicines and vaccines on a thousand people and then administering them to 100 million people is science is the real question.

Medical researchers have been caught manipulating results over and over again.

LaurieLee comments:

"Measles kills about one million people a year, it's not a minor inconvenience."

No, measles deaths have dropped 74% in the past seven years from a hugh of 750,000 to 197,000. This WHO document also talks about the dramatic drop in deaths in countries of much lesser health. Now, this is not magic: It's because of the measles vaccine. I'm not arguing that we should abandon the shot or the vaccine programs which have saved lives. I'm saying that we should evaluate the possible risk from this and other live virus vaccines much more objectively and scientifically than we have in the past. Yes, h4tch, completely abandoning these vaccines programs could lead to disease outbreaks. I don't recommend dumping vaccines; I recommend changing the level of safety we demand and a rigorous reevaluation of the schedule which now gives a hepatitis shot to a two-hour-old baby followed by six more shots six weeks later. The way we vaccinate lacks solid scientific support and ignores the possibility of increased vaccine safety.

Keep this discussion alive and in front of our legislators and medical community.

JNG MD


 
 
 

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03:10 PM on 02/24/2009
Gordon admits: "The proof is not there yet"

but writes,

"Vaccines as they are now manufactured and administered trigger autism in susceptible children."

with the unwavering certainty of a creationist, the very antithesis of a scientist.
02:52 PM on 02/24/2009
"This will be acknowledged by the AMA, the AAP, the CDC and the U.S. government at the same glacial pace these august entities followed in supporting the need to discourage smoking because it causes lung cancer, heart disease and other illness."

Regardless of how slow those august entities are, their pace is not your problem. They will never make recommendations contrary to a nearly unanimous scientific consensus. *You* are the hold-up. Until you provide science to support your certainty, the recommendations you want will never see the light of day.
02:32 PM on 02/24/2009
"Actually, I am a scientist. After high school, I continued my education and trained for twelve years in medical science. Subsequent to that, I have observed thousands of children and families and kept records about their health. That, Zortag, is science."

Not according to the editor of the BMJ:

"Doctors are not scientists [...] As medical students they were filled full with information on biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, and other sciences, but information does not a scientist make—otherwise, you could become a scientist by watching the Discovery channel. A scientist is somebody who constantly questions, generates falsifiable hypotheses, and collects data from well designed experiments […]. Most doctors follow familiar patterns and rules, often improvising around those rules. In their methods of working they are more like jazz musicians than scientists." (BMJ 2004;328)

So, according to the BMJ, not only is Gordon not a scientist, but he doesn’t know what a scientist is.
07:40 PM on 02/22/2009
Thank you so much, Dr. Gordon, for another excellent article.
Josephius
No, not microbio, molecular bio and biochemistry!
05:14 PM on 02/20/2009
"They were disdainful and unscientific in their approach and did not gather the needed evidence. "

It's not the courts responsibility to gather evidence. That's what the petitioners do. Obviously, their "evidence" stunk.

I realize you claim to be a doctor, but even you should know what judges do and don't do in a case.


"In the absence of that evidence, they should have insisted on further studies to assist in the decision-making process."

Again, it is the role of the petitioners, not the judges.

How can anyone consider you an authority on this issue (other than the fact they want to hear what you are saying to re-enforce their preconceived notions?....a nice arrangement you have with your 'specialization' in your line of work).
01:34 PM on 02/20/2009
Since when do the Special Masters gather evidence? The parents had lawyers and a Petitioner's Steering Committee to gather the evidence to present to the Special Masters and they had time to gather the best they could. Now what don't you like about that evidence? It was supposed to be the best to be had, but now there's something wrong with it? Certainly the Special Masters were not impressed and said so. If you were arguing evidence you would at least mention what was presented. Why haven't you?
04:17 PM on 02/18/2009
cont'd (under Dwst, 510pm on 02/17)

(2) Re "trigger autism": Vaccines can put the body under oxidative stress, which may just need the final straw of another vaccine, or combination of vaccines; and oxidative stress is a feature of autism. Plus: they have found some genes associated with autism that code for glutamate; and glutamate - as I have indicated elsewhere in this thread - is not only found in foodstuffs (MSG, aspartame, dairy & wheat, etc) but in vaccines, whereby it is present in the inflammatory setting OF vaccines. So not only is it wreaking havoc in its own right because it is an excitotoxin, but it is also a specific danger to children with the autism genes. Its presence indeed can "trigger autism". Plus pre-existent mitochondrial disorders can "trigger autism", especially if the child is given a large number of vaccines at a time (see the Hannah Poling case). So this also goes to how vaccines are "administered".

This is all a legitimate perspective on the matter. It is not "lying".

It also indicates how children could be screened for a genetic predisposition to damage by vaccines. If the authorities wanted to.
09:13 PM on 02/17/2009
I have been censored by HP for a number of posts, so lets see if this one gets thru. Look up an article that was publishd in Solan.com and Rollingstone Magazine in June, 2005. Written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr , "Deadly Immunity" spells out that when an epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) pointed out that the use of thimerosol as a preservative had lead to a 15 fold increase in autism in little kids, the cover-up started immediately and has been continuing ever since. One other story shows that the use of thimerosol as a preservative in childhood vaccines has been discontinued. Check it out and you skeptics may agree with Dr Gordon.
Josephius
No, not microbio, molecular bio and biochemistry!
05:17 PM on 02/20/2009
You've got to be kidding me? You are going to cite a blurb from a Salon article, written by tort lawyer RFKjr no less, as 'evidence' of a conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of physicians, scientists, and public health specialists?

No thinks. I stick with the scientific literature.
05:10 PM on 02/17/2009
"Vaccines as they are now manufactured and administered trigger autism in susceptible children." Marvelous wording - lying by innuendo. "manufactured" suggests that there is something in the vaccines that is harmful by some mechanism other than the immune response. "Trigger autism" suggests that autism is some intrinsic disease process that is loaded and ready to attack if it is somehow released, triggered. This, of course, is nonsense, and must be taken as some sort of literary device, a way of getting a sense across while not being literally accurate. But if it is a manner of speaking, why is it used as some sort of factual rebuttal? So it's being used, and misrepresented - that's lying.
04:13 PM on 02/18/2009
Dwst:

(1) Re "manufactured": For example, the measles component of the MMR shot is cultured on chick embryo cells, which can be contaminated with myelin basic protein (MBP). Thus the body will mount a reaction to it as part of its reaction to the vaccine - and also to the body's own MBP (MBP is MBP). This is called an autoimmune reaction. It's part of "the immune response", but it is caused by the manufacturing process. (N.B.: This isn't just 'theory': antibodies to MBP have been found in children with autism and damaged guts; see eg V.K. Singh et al.)
cont'd
01:16 PM on 02/17/2009
Thank you Dr. Gordon, for being a voice of reason during this unsettled time. We must continue to advocate for research such as the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies as well as thorough medical evaluation and study of this subgroup of children who regress following vaccination.
01:02 PM on 02/17/2009
Uh, where is the "Proof" doc?? I'm weary of people quoting a study from 10 years ago which has already been profoundly debunked...

Not to mention the audacity of parents who depend on other people getting their children innoculated to protect Their own unvaccinated children - I'm only grateful that these desperate, out of touch parents who would expose their children to potentially fatal illnessess are clearly in the minority.

Meanwhile, as reported in the UK, childhood occurences of measels have exploded since this 'theory' surfaced, a theory which has been PROVEN false in study after study after study....

I sympathize along with those families who care for autistic chidren, however if they understood the scientific process they would realize the FACTS point to the truth; there is no PROOF of any link between vaccination and learning disabilits.

"Genetic predispositions?" Fine - show me the PROOF, not hair brained theories. Evidence is NOT proof. Reasearch has PROVEN NO LINK.
10:56 AM on 02/17/2009
Our nation's vaccine program has become an ever-expanding juggernaut pushed by unresponsive bureaucrats with blatant conflicts of interest. No other consumer product offers so little post-sale follow-up or warranty. Children and adults permanently injured by vaccines receive no treatment, no compensation, not even acknowledgement. How can vaccine injury prevention be learned, when CDC officials and their various associates engage in denial and lies instead of research? Why should consumers trust people who act in such bad faith? If disease outbreaks occur, place the fault where it belongs -- with the government's policy errors. It's way past time to fumigate Atlanta and Baltimore.
02:23 AM on 02/17/2009
Thank you for clearing that up, Dr. Gordon. I too believe that we absolutely need vaccines, that is w/o a question. There is no doubt in my mind that administering all of these vaccines in such a short amount of time has never been tested properly! I believe whole heartedly that what altered documents and study results that are out there, are more than likely buried or burned. Honestly people!!! Just try to imagine what it would be like if these were let out? Hypothetically, what if it was ruled to be the cause of Autism? What do you think would happen to the WHO, CDC, FDA, and the NIH, as well as the federal government? Just for all of you that are not convinced, to think out of your box and just imagine it once!
There would be a catastrophic mess on their hands, now wouldn't there be?!
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07:37 PM on 02/16/2009
Dr. Gordon writes: Vaccines as they are now manufactured and administered trigger autism in susceptible children.>>>>

How do you know it's not the Tylenol that is very often given in conjunction with vaccines?

http://aut.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/3/293

".... This preliminary study found that acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was associated with autistic disorder. "

It cannot be vaccines alone, because I have an unvaccinated child with autism (and asthma).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19210907?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

"A growing number of studies show that regular use of acetaminophen (paracetamol) carries a dose-dependent risk of developing allergies in general and asthma in particular and of worsening other respiratory diseases and lung function.... "

"... Although the pathophysiology remains unclear, the available data justify a warning to the general public that the uncritical use of over-the-counter acetaminophen can lead to the development of allergies and asthma, even in utero."
03:15 AM on 02/17/2009
I sure would be interested to see more studies for this myself! It sure raises many of questions to my mind. Funny thing to me is, why pediatricians recommend the use of acetaminophen as apposed to ibuprofen use after a vaccination injection?
I am just throwing this one out there... when something foreign is injected into your body, wouldn't ibuprofen (an anti-inflammatory) be better for you?
Also, could it be that when you are using acetaminophen, could it open the doors for trapping heavy metals in your body as well?
It could go on and on.....
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07:59 AM on 02/17/2009
Also, could it be that when you are using acetaminophen, could it open the doors for trapping heavy metals in your body as well?>>>>

Exactly. Tylenol depletes glutathione, which is the body's natural chelator.
07:34 PM on 02/16/2009
cont'd

There is a large truth to get to here, in this matter of vaccines: that their side effects are far more extensive than the authorities and their lackeys in the public are letting the public know about - because the end justifies the means, doncha know. Well, no, I don't. I only know that the truth should out, in any area. That's what we have to get to. And that's the TRUE scientific way.