Infant Monkeys Given Standard Doses of Vaccines Develop Autism Symptoms

[libertyjam]

Infant Monkeys Given Standard Doses of Vaccines Develop Autism Symptoms

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Source: SafeMinds.org

Infant Vaccines Produce Autism Symptoms in New Primate Study by University Of Pittsburgh Scientists

Routine Safety Study That Government Scientists Refused to Do Illustrates Vaccine Program and Mercury Health Risks

http://vran.org/in-the-news/infant-m...tism-symptoms/

[libertyjam]

The above study and story was from 2008, for a followup:

When You Give Primates Vaccines, they Develop Autism-Like Symptoms… I Mean, Ummm, Never Mind. That Didn’t Happen.

Corporate Bullshit, Vaccine Lies

by Ana Bananarama

Abstracts from an autism study presented in 2008 at IMFAR (the world’s top autism science conference) described biological changes and altered behavior in vaccinated primates resembling the behavior traits of children with autism. The unvaccinated animals in the study showed no such adverse outcomes.

One would think that pharmaceutical companies would regularly experiment for safety on primates. But studies like the one mentioned at IMFAR which was researched by Dr. Laura Hewitson and her team simply do not happen prior to vaccines being released to the public.

The safety studies used by the pharmaceutical companies, are usually done on humans and last a few months total. The “control groups” are usually simply a different kind of vaccine rather than a saline injection or some other ACTUAL control.

Not only do pharmaceutical companies not do primate safety tests for vaccines, they also clearly don’t want anyone else doing any either.

That very damning study never made it to print. See, Dr. Hewitson has a conflict of interest: Her own child was reportedly vaccine injured.

Hewitson and the other authors then narrowed the focus in a bit in order to get published in the October 2009 edition of Neurotoxicology. The new article, “Delayed acquisition of neonatal reflexes in newborn primates receiving a thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B vaccine,” discussed very specific behavior indicative of brain injury that the monkeys portrayed when they got the Hep B vaccine at birth. That article made it into the journal. But of course, that article was later withdrawn by the editor’s request. Perhaps it was the conflict of interest, but notice as well that Andrew Wakefield was a co-author on the study.

Andrew Wakefield of course was at the center of the MMR/autism scandal. Wakefield lost everything from the accusations of impropriety of research.

Here we are now though, a few more years later and Wakefield is suing his accusers. Wakefield says he has proof that his tests were not flawed and that his accusers had undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry itself. The BJM (the medical journal that is being sued) asked the the judge to dismiss Wakefield’s case. More recently, Wakefield’s partner in the MMR study has just been exonerated.

Given all this controversy and the new autism statistics they just threw at us…. And while I don’t want any more primates given autism, a study is already out there in existence. Don’t you think it’s about time we take another good hard look at those primates that were mentioned back in 2008?

http://www.intellipissies.com/primate-vaccine-study/

[Domalais]

Infant Monkeys Given Standard Doses of Vaccines Develop Autism Symptoms

That's actually a rather blatant lie, as the researchers added thimerosal to a vaccine that does not contain thimerosal. Why? Well, because the study was entirely funded by anti-vaccine groups, and run by doctors who make money as paid experts in vaccine-related lawsuits. The primary author herself sued for money under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. She's also married to a guy who is a board member of Safe Minds. Another author... the original Andrew Wakefield... He's evidently moved on from making discredited studies about the MMR vaccine to instead making biased studies of the Hep B vaccine. Other authors are repeat IMFAR presenters.

Their study group was 13 monkeys. Their control group was 3 monkeys. Why the difference? Who knows! Doesn't that ruin the statistical significance of the study? Yep!

They only studied male monkeys. Why? Here's a quote from the study itself:

It is notable that, within low birth weight animals, males have significantly delayed development for some reflexes relative to females...

Guess which monkeys showed signs of delayed development? The ones with a low birth weight. Shock.


They vaccinated the monkeys at birth, and then only studied those monkeys for 14 days, and based all of their results on those two weeks. Why not study the monkeys longer? Who knows! They kept the monkeys for a year and then vivisected them to examine their brains. We know that from other, related, equally bad studies on the same monkeys.

The results? Three of the thirteen survival metrics studied were delayed in those receiving the vaccine: One was delayed by two days, and the other two were delayed by two days.




Unsurprisingly, this laughably bad study was withdrawn from NeuroToxicology immediately after the antivax community's publicity blitz in 2009. Shortly after they got done parading Jenny McCarthy around, in other words.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...61813X09002228

[tennman]

Thimerosal is mercury. You can't possibly think that it does nothing negative when injected into the human body. I was a chemistry major, mercury is toxic in ALL forms.

[dannno]

That's actually a rather blatant lie, as the researchers added thimerosal to a vaccine that does not contain thimerosal. Why?

Why not? Maybe they used to put thimerosal in that vaccine? Isn't thimerosal supposed to be "safe"?

[Brian4Liberty]

This is very popular on the news today:

Mom's obesity tied to child's autism, development: study

Mon Apr 9, 2012 8:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - Children born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer mothers, according to a U.S. survey.

And this was popular just the week before:

Gene mutations and father's age among cues for autism, studies suggest

The New York Times

Three teams of scientists working independently to understand the biology of autism have for the first time homed in on several gene mutations that they agree sharply increase the chances that a child will develop the disorder, and have found further evidence that the risk increases with the age of the parents, particularly the father.

Read more://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_20329158/gene-mutations-and-fathers-age-among-cues-autism

[James Madison]

Thimerosal is mercury. You can't possibly think that it does nothing negative when injected into the human body. I was a chemistry major, mercury is toxic in ALL forms.

The mercury in vaccines is ethyl mercury, which has a half-life of about 10 days. Methyl mercury, however, is the form that bioaccumulates through the food chain.

[Kluge]

The mercury in vaccines is ethyl mercury, which has a half-life of about 10 days. Methyl mercury, however, is the form that bioaccumulates through the food chain.

Was just going to mention that. Thanks.

[Domalais]

Thimerosal is mercury. You can't possibly think that it does nothing negative when injected into the human body. I was a chemistry major, mercury is toxic in ALL forms.

Eat any tuna lately?

[Domalais]

Why not? Maybe they used to put thimerosal in that vaccine? Isn't thimerosal supposed to be "safe"?

It is safe. It was removed from the vaccines on the basis of fraudulent medical studies like this one, concocted by doctors who discovered that they can make money hand over fist by milking parents of disabled children.

The old vaccine did contain thimerosal. It was removed in 2001. The new version undoubtedly contains a different additive to prevent fungal and bacterial growth; adding thimerosal in doesn't make it identical to the old vaccine. It's purely lawsuit bait.

If they really wanted to examine the issue they would have had a group of monkeys without the added thimerosal and another with, plus the control. But that comes with the risk of ending their gravy train. The doctors involved make good money selling chelation therapy to rich, gullible parents.