Video Highlights from First Congressional Hearing on Autism in 10 Years
Lawmakers Look into Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism
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The House Oversight Committee Hearing on Autism was held in Washington D.C. on November 29, 2012
Health Impact News Editor Comments : Earlier this year it was announced that autism rates had reached 1 out of every 88 children in the United States. Congress finally held hearings on this national crisis yesterday, and yet the mainstream media has completely ignored the over 4 hours of testimony. Below we share some of the highlights with comments from lawmakers concerned and shocked about this national epidemic.
Opening comments from Representative Dan Burton from Indiana, a long-time spokesperson in Congress on the dangers of vaccines and autism.
Dr. Boyle’s response to the video: “Since 2001 thimerosal  has been removed from all vaccines given to children, with the exception of the multi-vial flu vaccine.” List of vaccines with mercury from the FDA website .
Rep. Carolyn Maloney asks: “Are you looking at vaccines as part of your study? (as to environmental causes of autism)?” Mentions that she has had at least 50 families come to her and complain they had a healthy child prior to vaccinating, and asks why so many vaccines have to be given at one time. Dr. Boyle replies that they give so many to make sure the children get them, because many children don’t go to the doctor often enough to space them out longer.
Rep. Vern Buchanan asks: “Why is the number of vaccines we give to our children twice the number France gives, three times what Finland gives…?” “Have they looked at the impact these combinations of vaccines have?” “It is costing our country $1.3 billion a year to treat autism.”
Rep. Elijah Cummings: “You’re giving babies 9 shots at a time? Let’s put some brakes on this…”
Watch the entire hearing here: http://www.c-span.org/Events/Lawmakers-Look-into-Federal-Response-to-Rising-Rates-of-Autism/10737436113/
Dr. Brian Hooker’s written testimony submitted to Congress
TESTIMONY FOR AUTISM HEARING 11/28/12
My name is Brian Hooker and I hold a PhD in Biochemical Engineering. I am also the very proud father of a neurologically impaired fourteen-year old young man, Steven. Steven received all of his infant vaccines through 15 months of age and subsequently regressed into what is commonly called autism.
Unfortunately, Steven’s story has become much more common and we have to ask: What role, if any, did vaccines play in the emergence of symptoms that will be most likely a life-sentence for a generation of children? A life sentence where these children are unable to speak, are unable to take care of simple bodily functions, are in near-constant chronic pain, and struggle to control their behavior? These children will never realize their full potential and their voices will never be heard.
For all the children still to be born, it remains more than relevant to letourvoices ask: What role, if any, have vaccines played in the rising epidemic of autism – up from 1 in 10,000 cases in 1983 to a staggering 1 in 88 in 2008? Is it merely a coincidence that during this same time period, the vaccine schedule for children in the US has shot up from 10 vaccinations to 49, making our country the most vaccinated nation in the world?
If we simply say over and over again that vaccines are safe and all the studies prove it, might it be lost on all those busy parents that mercury, through the organic compound thimerosal, is still in various U.S. vaccines, at levels many times the EPA toxic exposure limit?
What does the evidence suggest and are we willing to look at it objectively, fairly, with science as our maiden – and with the kids, not politics our guiding light – despite a public health tradition in this country that gives vaccines protected status?
And the public is deprived of the full accounting it deserves, as those who might question the safety of vaccines, are marginalized, or worse.
But perhaps that is because the evidence connecting vaccines and their chemical components to neurological impairments, including autism, has not been laid out in the way I am going to reveal now.
I know that your concern for the health and safety of our children is unwavering….and that you will be guided by that, above all else
With that in mind, let me start by saying that over a period of 8 years during which I submitted more than 100 Freedom of Information requests to The Centers for Disease Control–the CDC–most of which were denied, I have nevertheless uncovered evidence of a disturbingly clear connection between infant vaccines and the incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
I have found, further, that many of these vaccines contain mercury in the form of thimerosal at many times the EPA toxic exposure limit.
Despite these facts the CDC consistently denies the existence of a relationship between any vaccine or vaccine component, including thimerosal, and autism, and has worked very hard to bury the fact that thimerosal, a potent neurotoxin, has played a significant role in the current autism epidemic, as shown by their own studies.
On one single day, when my son was 2 months of age, he received 62.5 mcg. of mercury, which exceeded the EPA safe exposure limit by 130 times. Many health professionals will erroneously tell you that mercury has been removed from of our vaccines. That is not true. The vast majority of seasonal influenza vaccines distributed in the U.S. today contain 25 micrograms of mercury. The seasonal flu vaccine, along with the H1N1 vaccine recommended in 2009, is given routinely to pregnant women in their first trimester as well as infants down to 6 months of age. Mercury partitions preferentially to the placenta and then to the unborn child, meaning that for the 2010 flu season, these very tiny unborn children were exposed to 50 micrograms of mercury. Interestingly, as reported by the CDC’s own VAERS database, the fetal death rate during that particular period jumped by 4250% as compared to the previous “flu season.”
I agree with the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s 2003 Mercury in Medicine Report. Mercury is a known, potent neurotoxin. Placing it in maternal and infant vaccines is at best irresponsible and, at worst, criminal.
Even if you are not willing to condemn injecting infants and pregnant women with toxic mercury-containing vaccines, you would expect that the evidence was at least worthy of the concern and scrutiny of a taxpayer supported health agency like CDC that should be accountable to the public. Yet, over my 8 years and more than a hundred Freedom of Information requests to the CDC regarding the possible link between thimerosal-exposure in infant vaccines and the incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, I have encountered a Berlin-wall like resistance. I have been shut out of the information necessary to get to the bottom of the question.
During all these years, the CDC has consistently refused to release the vast majority of the pertinent data, reports and correspondences to me, a father who has a strong right to understand how the CDC conducted its studies and reached its negative conclusions about the relationship between vaccines and autism.
To paint the issue more broadly, the CDC consistently denies the existence of a relationship betweenanyvaccine or vaccine component, including thimerosal, and autism, and while doing so, ignores the evidence contained in their own studies.
Although the CDC claimed that their landmark study proved there was no relationship between vaccines and autism, Dr. Verstraeten, who left CDC to work for vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline in July, 2001, stated in 2004 regarding the study&rsquo;s final outcome, “The article does not state that we found evidence against an association, as a negative study would. It does state, on the contrary, that additional study is recommended, which is the conclusion to which a neutral study must come.”
In 2008, this report was invoked by the Special Master in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to refuse to award compensation in the autism “test cases” closing the door for any recompense to children maimed by high levels of vaccine-based mercury.
Are you beginning to see the pattern here?
The CDC is playing fast and loose with the truth when it promotes its spin on what scientific studies show about vaccines and autism. What I’ve disclosed briefly today is the very tip of the iceberg regarding the use of mercury, a known neurotoxin in vaccines.
Please help us expose the malfeasance or downright efforts by the CDC to suppress the truth by bureaucratic spin. There must be a full investigation of the CDC’s activities in the vaccine safety program and the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
By pursuing such an investigation, you will help bring to light the information hidden in CDC files, some of which I have obtained and am providing to this committee today, that show our children have been and continue to be exposed to dangerous neurotoxins in vaccines, and that these vaccines have been linked to what is commonly called autism.
There is no acceptable reason why mercury should not be banned from all vaccines. The second most toxic substance known to science has no place being injected into infants, pregnant mothers or any human.
Through your efforts, we can take a long needed step toward ending this horrible epidemic and spare a generation of children from what happened to my wonderful, precious son.
– See more at: www.phoreveryoung.com
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