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Calling All Families! Let your Voice be Heard!

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is currently taking Requests For Information (RFI) on their 2010 Strategic Plan in an effort to update for 2011. The committee is specifically asking what has been learned in the past year about the issues covered in each of the seven chapters of the IACC Strategic Plan, and on what are the remaining gaps in the subject area covered by each chapter. In addition, the committee is seeking input on the introductory chapter and other general comments about the Strategic Plan.  Read more.

 

Vaccine Safety and the Ten Year Anniversary of a Broken Promise

By Lyn Redwood

It was ten years ago today, on July 18, 2000, that Sallie Bernard, Albert Enayati, Liz Birt and I sat huddled together in the back room between Congressman Dan Burton’s office and the Government Reform Committee hearing room making last minute edits to our testimony. Read more.

New Scientific Evidence Links Autism to Vaccines and Mercury

Ending the Autism Epidemic Starts with Removal of Harmful Exposures, Says SafeMinds

Two new papers published this week in the peer-reviewed neuroscience journal Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis point to vaccines and heavy metal toxins including mercury as causes of the alarming rise in autism. The Centers for Disease Control now estimate autism to affect one in 110 children, up 40% from just a few years ago. Read more.

New Autism Consortium Study Proves (Again) that Inherited Genes Don't Cause Autism
BY SAFEMINDS BOARD MEMBER MARK BLAXILL

The Autism Genome Project Consortium (AGPC) deserves credit for at least one thing. They know how to make a public relations mountain out of a scientific molehill.  Read more.

From the Executive Director:  The CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices considers using "evidence -based" guidelines for vaccine recommendations.

Over the past decade, I have attended several meetings of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) held at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The committee is charged with making recommendations on the use and administration of vaccines approved by the FDA. ACIP recommendations are then adopted by individual states and become state law. Read more.

US to burn millions of unused mercury containing swine flu vaccines at a cost of $260M. But what's the cost to human health?
By SafeMinds Board Member Jackie Lombardo

Left over swine flu vaccines are considered hazardous waste. As with all toxic waste, these vaccines must undergo specific treatments before disposal, and health authorities have just announced they are permitting their incineration. However, because these unwanted products contain mercury, SafeMinds questions the wisdom of this decision which allows even more mercury to become airborne. Read more.

Autism advocate Lyn Redwood discusses mercury vaccine controversy, chelation, treatment and recovery
Examiner.com

Autism is a treatable biochemical medical condition rather than an incurable psychological disorder, says Lyn Redwood, whose son recovered from autism after having mercury removed from his body. Redwood’s son Will is one of a growing number of children who have recovered from autism or made excellent progress from behavioral therapies and/or biomedical treatments.  Read full article.

 

Tragic Suppression of Science
SafeMinds protests the GMC sanctioning of Dr. Andrew Wakefield for exposing MMR vaccine injuries and calls for independent vaccine safety agency and Congressional hearings on government's lax record on safety issues

MAY 24, 2010 SafeMinds Press Release

Today, it was confirmed that Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleague, Dr. John Walker-Smith, will lose their licenses to practice medicine in the UK. This concludes the longest medical hearings ever held by the UK’s General Medical Council. SafeMinds, as an advocate for vaccine safety and evidence-based medicine deplores this travesty of “justice.”  Download full release.

 

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