Inept, disjointed agencies waste almost $1 billion, seek more funds
A government health agency director who a decade ago proposed diluting vaccine/autism data was one of two testifiers interrogated at a Congressional hearing yesterday on the federal government?s poor response to the autism epidemic costing the U.S. $137 billion a year.
Dr. Coleen Boyle, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control?s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, testified that her goal is ?raising awareness of the importance of this as a health problem and one we need to address.? An April 2000 email obtained via FOIA shows that Boyle contacted the CDC?s Frank DeStefano suggesting dilution of vaccine/autism data by adding one- and two-year-olds to his dataset ? children too young to have an autism diagnosis then.
?Does autism in history predate vaccines?? asked Rep. Darryl Issa (R-Calif.), chair of the U.S. House of Representatives House Oversight & Government Reform Committee. Yes, according to agencies administering the shots; no, according to legislators, physicians and parents filling in the gallery, who reported that their children regressed after receiving vaccinations.
Dr. Alan Guttmacher, a medical geneticist from the National Institutes of Health, defended his highly-criticized Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Both Guttmacher and Boyle testified that autism has no known cause or cure, and their only offerings of help were statistical tracking, detection tools, and behavioral therapies.
Outgoing Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) stated that autism has more than one cause, but ?the one we?re talking about today is mercury in vaccination and the environment.? He played a video from the University of Calgary showing destruction of brain neurons after low-level mercury exposure (here), and wondered how anybody from the CDC can watch and say that mercury doesn?t have an impact on neurodevelopment. Rep. Burton said that shortly after his grandson got nine vaccines in one day, the boy began banging his head against the wall and lost continence.
When Boyle claimed that since 2001 Thimerosal has been removed from all vaccines given to children, voices erupted from the audience. Boyle added, ?With the exception of the multi-dose flu vaccine? but omitted mentioning that the 50,000 parts per billion injected is exceedingly higher than the 4 ppb ?safe? limit for drinking water established by the Environmental Protection Agency and that it took until nearly 2004, not 2001.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), a physician, criticized the wasted research opportunities into familial disease processes. Gosar?s physician sister has a son once labeled autistic. ?As soon as we took him off wheat, gluten and milk products, this kid sits, reads, does everything appropriately.?
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) brought up the infamous ?Lilly Rider,? an industry-protective provision snuck into a Homeland Security conference report and passed before anyone could read it. He mentioned special interests such as coal emission producers, and how companies such as Eli Lilly, once a manufacturer of the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosal, give millions of dollars to affect the outcome of elections. ?There are reasons why this Congress and this government has not effectively addressed this issue,? said Rep. Kucinich. ?You have special interest groups who resist any deeper research on it, because it is going to affect their bottom line. Meanwhile you have children all of the country turning up with autism.?
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) asked about services for adults with autism. Dr. Guttmacher replied with an irrelevant comment about more effective diagnosis, which prompted Del. Norton to repeat her question. After Dr. Guttmacher responded by posing a question, Del. Norton concluded, ?In other words, we?re doing nothing for them.? Dr,. Guttmacher then repeated a previous statement about NIH offering ?free tools for parents to identify autism, to which Del. Norton announced impatiently, ?The mother knows it. The father knows it. The question is what to do?. In other words, it?s up to the family to try to figure it out.?
Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Penn.) asked Boyle if she had ever seen a statistical trend with such an accelerating pace in a 6-year period; she said, ?The only one that showed an increase was hyperactivity attention deficit disorder.? Rep. Meehan asked Boyle, ?You said, ?This is a public health concern.? Would you explain why this is not a public health crisis?? Stumbling over her words she replied that the CDC?s ?excellence is tracking epidemiologic research.? Rep. Meehan asked, ?What is being done to have a genuine comprehensive plan in which we are looking for accountability year to year on the progress that is being made?? Dr. Guttmacher said the IACC is charged with that duty, but he failed to mention
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