Alternative medicine changed my life. After successfully reversing chronic, debilitating auto-immune disease, I believed my experience with alternative medicine would convince my sister to follow the same route to health. Her battles with Lupus and heart disease left her disabled and living with pain, fatigue, and limitations every day of her life. She missed her formerly active lifestyle. She truly wanted to get well, but her values, her belief system, would not allow her to embrace alternative medicine. A former ICU and CCU nurse, she placed her faith in conventional treatment. She died.

A few months ago my eldest brother was diagnosed with lung cancer. I didn’t even try to argue the merits of alternative treatment. I knew better. He immediately began chemotherapy. Within weeks, he was dead. The treatment killed him before cancer had the chance.

I have not taken an antibiotic or any other prescription medication for more than 15 years (other than Novocain at the dentist). It’s not that I’ve never been sick—I continued to battle ear infections, sinus infections, even pneumonia. But I never resort to antibiotics. Instead I choose to use supplements and herbs, to aid my immune system, to allow my body to heal itself. As a result, I’ve suffered substantially fewer and significantly milder infections each year.

My friends, my family, my co-workers have all been aware that I embrace alternative medicine. Occasionally, they’ll even try one of my suggested remedies. But no matter how well it works, they tend to forget the easy, natural cure when the same symptoms strike a year later. And no matter how many times we’ve discussed my philosophies and success with alternative treatments, when I tell them I am sick, they tell me I need antibiotics. My success with alternative medicine has had little influence on anyone I know other than my children and my best friend, who now has one foot in alternative treatment and one foot in conventional treatment.

When I hear people talking about a health problem, especially chronic or potentially fatal conditions or diseases, I want to share information. I want to help. But unless that person is already open to alternative treatment, expounding my views is a waste of breath. The truth is, we all tend to stay in our comfort zones and maintain our world views. People who believe conventional medicine is science and alternative medicine is quackery tune out reports of 200,000 or more deaths each year from prescription drug complications (not overdoses, not the wrong drug, not illegal drugs—properly prescribed drugs), but their ears perk right up when they hear a news report that says a natural remedy caused one or two deaths. Facts don’t matter when our prevailing culture tells us conventional medicine is good and alternative medicine is bad.

The first time I encountered this blind indifference to the truth was soon after my eldest son was diagnosed with severe ADHD. I had read about treating ADHD through diet. When I mentioned the possibility of diet management to the diagnosing physician, he patiently and thoroughly explained that diet management didn’t work, sharing details about a study that had statistically proven it.

Undeterred and refusing to place my preschooler on Ritalin, I tried the dietary restrictions. Within weeks, there was not only an astounding change in my child’s behavior, there was a measurable change in his ability—concrete, fully measurable change. My child, whose artistic ability had been limited to drawing smiley faces and pictures of the sun (far below his age level), drew detailed pictures such as a bird in a cage with talons and feathers and a rocket ship blasting off, complete with flames, pictures that far exceeded his age level.

The only change in his world had been the removal of all food colorings, flavorings, and preservatives from his diet. In other words, he had eaten no processed foods.

The doctor did not want to discuss our success. He did not want to see my proof. Nor did he want to hear about my son’s astounding change in behavior. Success in treating ADHD through diet was completely at odds with his world view, even on a case-by-case basis.

In recent years, our society has grown to accept a few truths about health and diet. Now that the medical establishment tells us so, we believe a high fat diet rich in fried foods will lead to heart disease. Most of us also believe there is a link to type II diabetes. We accept the medically recommended changes in diet to manage those diseases, as long as we include prescribed pharmaceuticals. But most of us, even those of us who believe a healthy diet could have prevented these diseases in the first place, have a hard time imagining a healthy diet could offer a cure. The belief that food has the power to heal, or that food can give the body what it needs to heal itself, is so foreign to today’s modern medical approach it is rejected out of hand.

On Facebook, Michael (Editor and Chief of OLM), posted his belief that we are responsible for our health, that getting healthy is easier than most of us think. “It’s getting over the brainwashing that’s tough,” he said. “Most people could rid themselves of most any disease from cancer to diabetes in a few months or even weeks.”

Michael’s post really offended a few people who vehemently reacted to the idea that a cancer “victim’s” lifestyle choices may have led to the disease. While it is acceptable to assume lifestyle choices lead to heart disease, it is not as acceptable to reach the same conclusion in regards to cancer, unless, of course, we blame the pack-a-day smoker for contracting lung cancer.

The statement that we could actually cure cancer also set off a firestorm. ”If you know between diet and how to cure cancer, why isn’t it on the front page of the newspaper? Why isn’t it on the news?”

Max Gerson’s therapy has been curing cancer for 80 years. So, I ask you, why isn’t it on the news? Why aren’t we hearing about the miracle cures? Why don’t we hear the personal testimonies from people who were told their cancer was incurable or inoperable, who went on to recover through nutritionally based therapy? Why aren’t we hearing from the women who chose nutrition-based therapy over a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation, who are cancer free 20 years later? Or the men with testicular cancer? Or the cases of melanoma?

Yes, cancer is big business in this country. Yes, pharmaceutical companies run conventional medicine. But it’s more than that. Truly caring physicians believe that not one case of cancer has ever been cured by Gerson’s therapy or any other alternative treatment. Even when presented with first person accounts from a patient who fully recovered through alternative therapy, many otherwise intelligent, thoughtful physicians will find some means to disregard the obvious truth that lies outside of their value system. “They never had cancer in the first place,” they say. Or they decide the prior chemotherapy or radiation deemed a failure, had worked after all.

Why is the success of alternative medicine so blatantly ignored or dismissed? Perhaps it is a case of what Yale University calls cultural cognition. According to this theory, astute, intelligent people are prone to disregard facts that do not align with their cultural values. Information that does not support the prevailing value system is not believed, regardless of its validity or persuasiveness. If cultural cognition is the culprit, what values of conventional medicine are in conflict with alternative medicine?

Looking back at the cultural history of disease and treatment, we realize humankind saw disease as something outside of the body—ill fate, a curse of the gods. The patient wasn’t responsible for his or her health. The patient was the victim. In many ways, conventional medicine perpetuates this thinking. We get sick. We take drugs and we get well. Alternative medicine does not support this way of thinking or living. Alternative medicine forces us to take responsibility for our health by recognizing that we create or destroy it.

In order to be healthy, we must eat nutrient dense, live foods. We must exercise and get good quality sleep. We need to laugh, to play. We must minimize chemical exposure and detoxify the body.

Far too many of us place a higher value on convenience. We live fast lives. We eat fast foods. We buy them at the drive through. We pop a package into the microwave or we open a can. We live on chicken nuggets, hot dogs, and hamburgers. We don’t get near enough sleep so we down high caffeine energy drinks and coffee just to make it through the day.

We dye our hair. We lather up our skin with chemicals, and spray more chemicals into our armpits and onto our hair. We use more chemicals to clean our homes and to sweeten the air. And when our bodies give out, we blame our genetics rather than consider the possibility that our lifestyle could be at fault. When we seek out treatment, will we choose the fix that requires a complete overhaul of the lifestyle we have chosen? No. Not a chance. We choose the treatment that aligns with our values. We choose to be the victim. We choose to place our lives in the hands of our doctors. We choose what is easy, even when our lives are literally at stake.

As a society, our only hope to change this aberrational, mainstream perception of health and disease is through education and example. The more people are faced with the truth, the more they read, hear, and see the miracle of natural healing, the more they will open their minds to the possibility that our bodies are miraculous and that health begins and flourishes through a diet rich in organic, nutrient dense foods.

The big C – Cancer. The word strikes fear in the bravest of us all, and rightly so. The American Cancer Society reveals the current, chilling statistics: one out of every two men and one out of every three women will battle cancer at some point in their lives. And too often, they will lose. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States.

The National Cancer Institute’s statistics report a 66%, five-year survival rate. Longitudinal studies reveal a 58-59% twenty-year survival rate. Conventional medicine claims today’s statistics prove current treatments are effective at curing cancer or at the very least extending life. Not everyone agrees with these claims.

Cancer is a slow moving disease; early detection is increasing. The earlier cancer is detected, the greater the odds of living for five years, with or without effective treatment. Critics, such as Mike Anderson, (from the documentary, Healing Cancer from the Inside Out) contend the increase in numbers of cancer patients living for five years is caused by the increase in early detection rather than the efficacy of current conventional treatment. In addition, he contends the methodology of reporting numbers is highly suspect—that the cancer industry massages numbers to support claims of effective treatment.

The National Cancer Institute’s data graphs show significant improvement in the survival rate for lymphoma and melanoma. When these numbers are combined with the statistics for all types of cancers, the overall cancer survival rates dramatically improve. But when the other cancers are looked at individually, their survival rate from 1975 through today shows negligible improvement on a graph.

Cancer begins with a single damaged cell—a cell that refuses to follow a normal life cycle of growth, division, and death. The cancer cell mutates and refuses to die; instead dividing to form a mass we call a tumor, or, in the case of leukemias, disrupting normal processes in the bone marrow and blood.

As cancer grows, tumors impede normal function of organs and body systems. The bloodstream and the lymphatic system become the means for cancer cells to invade other parts of the body.

Conventional treatment zeros in on the tumor or tumors, primarily using surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to kill the cancer cells. Treatment is aggressive and invasive. Chemotherapy and radiation destroy healthy tissue as well as cancerous tissue. Chemotherapy also suppresses the patient’s immune system, raising the risk of death by other causes such as pneumonia.

Nutritionally based alternative treatments such as the Gerson and Budwig diets view the tumor as a symptom of disease, not the cause. Treatment is focused on building health, strengthening the immune system and the liver, raising oxygen in the cells, detoxifying the body, and eliminating the wastes created as the body wages war against the cancer.

Whichever protocol you choose to follow, select a proven path and fully consider your ability to comply. If you’re a person who “can’t follow a diet to save my life,” conventional treatment may be a better fit for you. If you choose the alternative route, be sure to surround yourself with a safe and protective support system. Naysayers, both professionals and laymen, are vicious. They will leave no stone unturned in their efforts to undermine your decision, your confidence, and your resolve. They will truly believe you to be a fool in need of their advice and they will make every effort to bring you over to their way of thinking. Strangely enough, their concern for you, heartfelt as it may be, may vanish when alternative treatment is successful. Don’t be too surprised when they don’t show the least interest in your success.
You choose the way you live. You choose your quality of life. Choose well.

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Dr. Max Gerson – Persecuted for Curing Cancer Naturally

Johanna Budwig Cured Cancer Naturally and Here’s How

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Hypothyroidism – Natural Remedies, Causes, and How To Heal the Thyroid

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For years we’ve been told to stop sunbathing, to stay out of the sun. We slather sunscreen on our children. We buy make-up, lip balm, and hair care products that contain SPF 15 protection. And what is the result of this anti UV ray vigilance? Skin cancer is on the rise.

SPF 15 works very well. It blocks 99% of the UV rays. The problem is that we need UV rays in order to make vitamin D. Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, strengthens and builds bones, wards off multiple sclerosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, and periodontal disease. It regulates cell growth, and protects against lymphomas and cancers of the colon, prostate, lung, and skin.

Yes, Vitamin D, gained through exposure to the sun, helps prevent skin cancer!

“There are two types of skin cancer,” says Dr. Michael Holick, one of the world’s leading authorities on vitamin D and vitamin D deficiency. “There’s what’s called non-melanoma skin cancer and there is no question that excessive exposure to sunlight and sunburns will damage the DNA and induce skin cells to become cancerous. That is non-melanoma squamous and basal cell cancers. They are typically easy to detect, easy to treat. They’re not lethal, for the most part.

Melanoma is a different story. Most melanomas occur on the least sun exposed areas. Occupational sun exposure decreases your risk of malignant melanoma. We believe that if you have a large number of moles, a number of sun burning experiences, bad genetics, and red hair color—that is very light skin—they will markedly increase your risk of malignant melanoma, and that’s deadly. About 8,000 people die a year of malignant melanoma. But there is no evidence in my opinion that sensible sun exposure increases your risk of that deadly disease. In fact there is good evidence that it decreases your risk.”

Where you live and the color of your skin are significant factors in determining your risk for Vitamin D deficiency and correlating diseases. So is your weight. Though vitamin D is stored in fat cells, obesity inhibits its release. If you live at a latitude above 33 degrees (north of Atlanta, Georgia), you cannot get enough UV rays in the winter months to make vitamin D. And the darker your skin, the more sun exposure you require, no matter the season. Geographical and racial statistics do correlate to higher incidences of all diseases linked to Vitamin D deficiencies.

Unfortunately, not all medical doctors are aware of these links. Dr. Holick is finding many of his patients who come to him with a prior diagnosis of fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome with symptoms of muscle weakness and throbbing, aching bone pain are actually suffering from osteomalacia, a bone disease directly caused by vitamin D deficiency. The good news is treatment with vitamin D supplements and/or sunlight exposure quickly reverses this disease.

Vitamin D is not, in fact, a vitamin. It’s a hormone. “By definition a vitamin means that it has to come from an external source,” Dr. Holick explains, “but when you’re exposed to sunlight, you make it. So by definition, it’s not a vitamin. And more importantly, once vitamin D is made in your skin it goes to your liver and kidneys to get activated. And so again by definition, it’s being generated in one organ system and going to a different place to have a biologic effect and by definition, that’s a hormone.” Dr. Holick suggests using sunscreen in moderation. “People need to be aware that a sunscreen SPF of 15 reduces your ability to make vitamin D in your skin by 99%. So if you’re putting a sunscreen on all the time before going outside, you are definitely going to put yourself at risk forVitamin D deficiency.”

He suggests you start with 5 or 10 or 15 minutes of sun exposure depending upon time of day, season of the year and the latitude, 3 to 4 times a week. Remember, the darker your skin, the more exposure you need. The opposite is also true. The lighter your skin, and redheads know this from experience, the more likely you are to burn.

Sunburn can damage your skin, and does put you at higher risk of skin cancer. So Dr. Holick suggests that if you go to the beach for an hour or two, put on sunscreen after 15 or 20 minutes. “Take advantage of the beneficial effect,” he says. “Then prevent the damaging effects due to excessive exposure.”

Start off slow and don’t expose your skin for too long. Our bodies do have built in protection; we tan. Most of us do, anyway. When it’s time to get out of the sun, put on a hat, get under an umbrella, find some shade, or cover up if you want to avoid sunscreen all together. But don’t avoid the sun. It’s summertime. Go out and make some Vitamin D.

I was a senior in high school the first time I attempted a natural cure. One day my glands swelled up and my throat hurt so badly I could barely swallow. I looked like I had the mumps.

I’d read about the curative properties of vitamin C. At lunch, I drove to the drug store and bought a big bottle of chewable vitamin C. I chewed a handful of tablets and continued to eat one or two every fifteen minutes. By the end of the day all of my symptoms had vanished.

My second remarkable cure occurred a few years later. I had three deep warts on my hand that had been chemically removed, burned, and finally surgically removed. Each time, they immediately grew back. Worse yet, I had dozens of painful Plantar warts on the ball of my foot. I’d had the warts on my hand for more than five years, the warts on my foot for more than a year. A friend handed me a high quality vitamin E capsule and suggested I open it and spread the vitamin E on the warts. I did it to appease her. Imagine my surprise when all of the warts disappeared within two weeks with no further treatment!

The warts on my foot never reoccurred. Years later, the warts on my hand did reappear. One more dose of vitamin E and I have never seen another wart.

I wish I had learned more about alternative health care after these two early successes. Unfortunately, I followed the medical model to the detriment of my health. More on that later…

Big Business, the term never used to turn my stomach. Now it does.

In my years of naiveté, the words “big business” meant industry, lots of jobs, lots of money, philanthropy. Corporate America was dependable, responsible. Men and women chose a career, worked until retirement, and then lived off their pensions. Corporations were benevolent structures, the backbone of the American economy.

Then I watched as baby boomers, who worked for the same corporations for years, were suddenly laid off. Men and women in their forties started over as younger workers were hired to replace them for less pay. Company loyalty was not repaid in kind.

Then internal corruption made headlines with mishandled pension funds and poor business practices. Rich CEOs were handed golden parachutes and our government bailed out corporation after corporation.

But to be honest, I still had blinders on. It wasn’t until I began working with OLM that I learned how pervasive greed and corruption are in corporate America, how often death and environmental devastation result. How can anyone with a conscience work for these companies that have looked the other way when they realized their chemicals were polluting groundwater, that their mercury was contaminating the ocean and our seafood, that their pills might be the root cause of mass shootings, that their vaccinations caused an epidemic of autism?

Whatever we do, we need to stop burying our heads in the sand, pretending we don’t see what’s really going on.

Step one: stop buying their products.
Step two: tell your friends why they should stop buying their products.

If a company does not practice environmentally sound principles, if their products are not good for us or for the planet, we have the power to put them out of business. All we have to do is STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS!

Big business did not build our economy; microenterprise built our economy—small businesses with five or fewer employees, often family owned and run enterprises. Let’s support those small businesses. Let’s buy our food from local farmers and CSAs. Let’s look online or better yet through the pages of OLM to find natural and organic products from microenterprises or small businesses. Buy smart, stay safe, protect the planet. It’s really quite simple.

I grew up believing vaccinations were safe – well, almost safe. Once my neck and jaw swelled up and we were pretty sure I had the mumps, except for the weird sore on my mouth. Turns out, I had scratched my smallpox vaccination then re-inoculated myself by scratching my lip. This time the infection had entered my lymph glands rather than my bloodstream. I recovered within a few days.

I’ll never forget the shock I felt when it came time to vaccinate my first child. I held the vaccination form in my hand, reading about the rare but possible outcomes—life threatening illness, crippling disease, death. I wanted to run away. Every instinct in me said, “Protect this baby! Don’t do this!” But the doctor convinced me I had no real choice; after all, vaccination was the law. My child couldn’t go to daycare or to school without his shots.

I’ll never know if my son’s symptoms of pervasive childhood development disorder (autism—a mild-to-moderate case), his ADHD, or his learning disabilities were caused by those shots. He was an infant when his symptoms first appeared.

In later years, when fully inoculated, both of my sons caught whooping cough and passed it on to me. “Must have been a bad batch of vaccine,” the doctors said. But my kids had been vaccinated in Georgia and the outbreak was in Washington State (others caught it, too.) Obviously, it wasn’t the batch. The shot didn’t work.

I believe vaccinations are contaminated. I know the industry has lied to us, covering up the fact that they have used our children as guinea pigs; they don’t even know the efficacy of their vaccinations because many of these illnesses were already on the decline when we started vaccinating for them. I believe the industry is driven by greed and I don’t believe these people have our best interests at heart.

There is no question in my mind that today’s vaccinations are unsafe and that our children are subjected to too many shots. There is no question in my mind that the link between autism and vaccinations is very real, though I do not know if the cause was thimerosal (mercury) which has been removed from many BUT NOT ALL of the childhood vaccinations.

And yet, I can’t seem to let go of that niggling fear that shots are necessary. Do vaccinations work at all? I don’t know. And I don’t know if we have the evidence to prove it one way or the other. I’d love to see a panel discussion with the top minds on this issue, pro and con, to hear a real debate with the strengths and weaknesses of the research revealed.

We were told vaccinations would make us immune to diseases, just as surely as if we had contracted these diseases and recovered. But true immunity is lifelong. Now we come to find all those shots we had as children no longer protect us. Adults are supposed to get booster shots, though many of us don’t. Yet, somehow we aren’t all keeling over with diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles. Why is that?

The following is a transcript of Robert F. Kennedy’s speech for the Green Our Vaccines Rally in Washington, DC, June 4th, 2008. This speech, posted on the Generation Rescue website is reprinted with permission.

Thank you very much. I’m so happy to see all of you out here today, finally telling the truth to this congress which needs to hear the truth for the first time, and as Boyd Haley says, the press isn’t telling it to them. You know, the one exception is UPI, that has done a great job, and we need to give them an applause for what they’ve done, ‘cause they’re the only media outlet that is telling the truth on this issue.

I didn’t want to get involved in this issue, I got dragged into this issue because the truth became undeniable to me—and I was working on mercury issues from an environmental standpoint: coal burning power plants, which discharged an enormous amount of mercury, and about eight years ago, the EPA said that in nineteen states, because of mercury discharge from power plants, it is now unsafe to eat any freshwater fish in the state. In forty-nine states, at least some of the fish are unsafe to eat because of mercury. In fact, the only state where all the fish are still safe to eat is Wyoming—Dick Cheney’s home state, where the republican-controlled legislature has refused to appropriate the money to test the fish.In all the other states, at least some, most, or all the fish are unsafe to eat. Every state on the Atlantic coast has fish advisories; every state in the Gulf coast now has fish advisories; if you eat tuna fish, the FDA will warn you not to eat too much of it; swordfish, all these fish, and why?

Because it causes neurological injury in children.

So the government scientists are acknowledging that even tiny, infinitesimal amounts of mercury—parts per billion—will cause

profound neurological injury in children. And I was working on these issues, and mothers started coming up to me and said, “You know, the biggest exposure is not coming from power plants, or old mining claims, or old mining claims, as you might think. It’s coming from our own vaccines.” And they asked me to work on it, and to just look into it. And they were not hysterical people. They were scientists, they were doctors, they were psychiatrists, they were pharmacists, they were people that had their feet on the ground. They had attended the conferences, they had read the scientific literature, they had calmly and deliberately gone through this, and they had reached a conclusion. And the conclusion was that the vaccines were destroying the health, were making the sickest generation of American children in the history of our country. And I started looking into it, and somebody provided me with the Simpsonwood memo, which I then published in Rolling Stone.

Simpsonwood was the transcripts of a secret meeting that was held between CDC and seventy-five representatives of the vaccine industry, in which they reviewed a report that CDC had ordered, the Stratton study of the hundred-thousand children in the United States Vaccine Safety Database. And when they looked at it themselves, they said, “It is
impossible—” this is a quote, “It is impossible to massage this data to make the signal go away. There is no denying that there is a connection between and Thimerosal in the vaccines. And they said—this is what they said, I didn’t say this, this is their own scientists, their own conclusion of the best doctors, the top people at CDC, the top people in the pharmaceutical industry.

And, you know, when they had this meeting, they had it not in Atlanta, which was the headquarters of the CDC, but at Simpsonwood, at a private conference center, because they believed that that would make them able to insulate themselves from a court request under the Freedom of Information law, and they would not have to disclose the transcripts of these meetings to the public. Somebody transcribed the meetings, and we were able to get a hold of it.

You have them talking about the Verstratten study and saying there’s a clear link not just with autism but with a whole range of neurological disorders: speech delay, language delay. All kind of learning disorders: ADD; hyperactivity disorder and the injection of these vaccines [sic]. And they could tell because, as you know, vaccine protocols were dramatically increased.

When I was a little boy, we only got three
vaccines. But my children, five of my six children, got twenty-two vaccines. Beginning in 1989—that’s the Thimerosal generation. That’s the vaccine generation, and it’s the sickest generation in the history of this country. And I looked at these, I read, and I was astonished, because I have worked on environmental issues for twenty-five years, and I know what “captive agency phenomena” is. It’s the dynamic by which the regulatory agencies become captured by the industries they’re supposed to regulate. And there’s all kinds of mechanisms that encourage that, or provoke that, or promote that to happen.

But I was shocked, because I know many of these people in CDC, and I know the people in the FDA, and I know that when they entered those agencies, they entered with a good heart, intending to do the right thing. But something had corrupted them. They got sucked into a vortex because they made decisions that were wrong, and instead of admitting it to the public, they covered it up to protect themselves. And it was very clear, and then I got a hold of the correspondence between the doctors and between CDC, rebuking each other and saying, “Why didn’t we look at this? Why didn’t somebody do a mass loading before we did these, approved these protocols with twenty-two vaccines to these children? Why didn’t we do this?” Rebuking themselves, rebuking each other. And then, the Simpsonwood transcripts, after the first, maybe two hours in which they’re talking about the undeniability of the connection between autism and Thimerosal; the impossibility of massaging the data further in order to try and eliminate those
signals. That’s what they spend the first two hours.

The rest of the meeting they spend talking about, “How do we hide this?” from the press, from the public, and from what they call the “predatory bar,” all the lawyers out there who may represent people who were injured by their negligence. And the end of that meeting, they make a few decisions. One is, for Stratton, the man who designed, who constructed the study, is hired the next day by GlaxoSmithKline and shipped off to Switzerland. And six months later, he sends in a redesigned study that includes cohorts that are—predictably—who are too young to have been diagnosed as autistic.

So he loads the study down, the data down, and they tell the public that they’ve lost all the original data. This is what CDC says to this day, that it does not know what happened to the original data in the Verstratton study. And they publish this other study that is a corrupt and crooked what we call “tobacco science,” done by a bunch of “biostitutes, of crooked scientists who are trying to fool the American public.
Then Kathleen Stratton, of CDC and IOM,says, “What we need is, we need some studies that will disprove the link.” So, they work with the vaccine industry to gin up these four phony European studies that are done by vaccine industry employees, funded by the vaccine industry, and published in the American Academy of Pediatrics magazine, which receives eighty percent of its revenue from the vaccine industry. And none of these scientists disclose any of their myriad conflicts, which conventional ethics
rules require them to do. It’s not disclosed.

And these studies—and you know, I’ve made a profession of reading phony science, of junk science, of “tobacco science,” because I see it every day. I’ve sued over four-hundred polluters, and this how they defend themselves. They hire these phony scientists, “tobacco scientists,” they produce these phony reports—so I know how to read them. So I did something that not a single member—you see the press here, and all there?—not a single member of this press corps, I can guarantee you, has ever read any of those studies. It has not happened. What they read was the CDC’s description of those studies, which has nothing to do with what’s in the studies. And you need to read these studies—and I’m talking to you guys, and you

need to read them critically, and that woman, I called that woman who wrote that TIME magazine article, and I called the editor of The Washington Post when they said, you know, “Well, this is the newest mythology, they’ve removed the Thimerisal from the vaccines and autism rates have not gone down.”

How many times have you read that repeated by these people from the press? That is an industry talking point that the industry knows is a lie—everybody knows that’s a lie. The amount of Thimerisal today in the flu vaccines is about sixty percent of what they claim to have removed from all the other pediatric vaccines. So, I looked at these, I read these studies, and I saw studies that weren’t even good—that wasn’t even high-quality fraud. It is low—these are low quality fraud, the worst—I mean, anybody, you don’t even need a scientist to advise you and tell you where the fraud is. And I’ll tell you what they—I’ll just tell you what one of them, the big one that they all rely on, the Danish study, where they said, okay, in 1992, Denmark banned Thimerisal. And after that, autism rates continued to climb. Therefore, there is no association between autism and Thimerosal. That’s the study.

What they didn’t tell you is that in 1992, Denmark was concerned about the connection between Thimerisal and autism, and about this huge rise in autism, and it began for the first time requiring registering autism as a reported illness in Denmark. So all the people who had autistic children suddenly had to register them for the first time. Plus, in Copenhagen, they founded a new clinic to treat autistic kids, which gave people a huge financial incentive and health incentive to register their children. So it’s the registry that went up, not the incidents of autism that went up. But they didn’t say that in the study. They never mention the Copenhagen clinic. They never mention the change in the rules in Denmark.

They just show you the graphs, of Thimerisal is banned here, and autism continues to go up. Well, the reason the autism rates rose was because—was an artifact of their data collection processes. It had nothing to do with the reality on the ground of the occurrence of autism. So, and you’ve heard all of their other studies, and you know, they all have this guy Paul Offit. You guys know him? And he is the poster child for the term “biostitute.” This a man who has made himself the spokesperson for the vaccine industry. He portrays himself as an independent scientist, he does not disclose the millions of dollars of transactions.

Let me just close up by saying this, that—and I started out by saying this—that, you know, they, these people, one of the worst crimes that they’ve done—and, you know, I’ve talked to The New York Times, and I said, you know, “You guys had Judith Miller, you know, talking for a year about the Iraq War, and saying how what a great thing it is and covering up the truth from the government spokespeople.” And I said, “There’s no difference what you’re doing, and then you had to come out and apologize,” and the Times publically apologized for that. And I said, “You’re going to have to apologize for this someday, for what you’ve done here. Because what you’ve done here, that war’s going to cost us three trillion dollars, but the treatment of these children, and cost to our society, from what you have done, from what you are doing to this generation of children, is going to far exceed the cost of the Iraq War.” And somebody is going to have to come to terms with that, and ultimately, the American press has completely let down our democracy.

And one of the things you see repeated again and again, is that these are, that the women, you know, who claim that their children—and I’ve gotten now hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters, and that’s not hyperbole, that’s not exaggeration, from women who had the exact same experience. They bring a perfectly normal two-year old, who’s exceeded all of their milestones, to the doctor to get—who they trust—to get their pediatric flu shots, their MMR vaccines at the age of two.

They get that shot, the child goes into seizure, develops a fever that night, and over the next three months loses her or his ability to speak, to interact with his brothers and sisters, engages in stereotypical behavior—head-banging screaming, biting—and lose all capacity for social interaction. And they’ve lost this child, and they watch it happen, and it’s happened thousands and thousands of times, and you hear that story once or twice, and you say, “Well, maybe it’s an anomaly,” but you hear it a hundred times, and you have to say, “We’ve got to start looking at this.” And nobody—the CDC had said, “No, we’re not going to look at it. We’re going to cut off all funds to anybody that wants to look at it.”

Why isn’t the press asking that question? Why aren’t they asking CDC, “Why don’t you study the Amish, like UPI did? You know, why don’t you study these home-schooled kids?” Thirty-thousand studied by the UPI and no autism in that group. They studied all the Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There’s only—there should be a hundred and thirty autistic kids. There are four. And three of them were adopted after receiving their vaccines, and the fourth one lived downwind of a coal-burning power plant. So we know what the truth is, and what we’ve got to stop doing is blaming the mothers, which is what they’ve done.

These are not hysterical women. These are people I—you know, I have a child who has allergies, life-threatening anaphylactic allergies, and asthma. My wife knows better than any doctor. She can put her hands on that boy and she knows what’s wrong with him. She knows if his chest is tightening up, she knows exactly what allergen triggered his allergy. She knows what’s gone wrong with that child, and these mothers know what made their child sick.

Anyway, keep fighting, and ultimately we’ll get these people to move, too. You’ve got to not just show up here, this is a really important rally, you’ve got to contact your congresspeople and make sure they understand this issue and that they’re going to operate, and let’s not let them go one more day without some legislation banning this stuff and getting it out.