My Apologies - Disregard the last message
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Dear IMVA,
A big lesson in double check consciousness. Please disregard the last email and use this version. I had repeated the last two paragraphs.
Best Regards,
Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Executive Director
International Medical Veritas Association
http://www.imva.info
The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) was formally launched May 30, 2004. Mandated to investigate and confront those medical and pharmaceutical interventions that are compromised by conflicts of interests, the IMVA takes an authoritative and compelling stand on diverse issues in the world of health and healthcare. For example, the IMVA will present ongoing objective scientific research, data and analyses with conclusions that challenge the recent positions of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on key aspects of the childhood immunization program.
Serious errors exist in policies that permit: inoculation of children with up to five vaccines during a single doctor visit; the use of mercury as a vaccine preservative; newborn inoculation with the Hepatitis B vaccine prior to discharge; and, all children 6 months and older to receive the flu vaccination every year. These publicly approved policies are leading to tragic consequences that include, in large part, the 700% increase in autism over the past 10 years. In reality, these so-called interventions are large-scale experiments conducted at the expense of our young children, who are showing an increase in childhood cancers and other chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes.
Why were these untoward policies authorized? In one word: greed. Dr. Kate Scannell recently reported that, "According to confidential documents recently acquired and reviewed by the New York Times, the U.S. drug company trade association PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) intends to spend $150 million in the current year in hopes of influencing our domestic and foreign policy makers. The Times reports that PhRMA's budget for such lobbying activities during the fiscal year beginning July 1 represents a 23 percent increase over the prior year. The plan includes a $72.7 million allocation for lobbying at the federal level, $49.7 million for state lobbying efforts, and $4.9 million to lobby the Food and Drug Administration."
Medicine will never be safe as long as we tolerate the incursion of the power of pharmaceutical companies into the medical decision making process, since the profit motive interferes greatly with sound medical judgment. The IMVA recognizes that medical disasters are being perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry. Hardly a week goes by without news or another report on the corrupting influence of these companies on the medical community. Instead of serving the interests of those who have entrusted them with their health, the medical establishment has become a legally sanctioned purveyor of death. Dr. Barbara Starfield estimates that there are approximately 250,000 avoidable deaths occurring at the hands of doctors each year, while Dr. Gary Null and his colleagues estimate the figure to be much higher -- 786,000 in the United States alone. Although these estimates have been published in reputable medical and health journals, they do not touch upon the tragedy of infants found dead in their cribs, or other babies thought to be shaken to death by their parents � outcomes that sometimes were later attributed to adverse vaccine reactions. These estimates also do not reflect the abominable situation in third world countries, where immunization is forced on sick and malnourished children who already have compromised immune systems.
The IMVA is also concerned about the dogmatic adherence to reductionistic paradigms that emphasize costly and dangerous surgical procedures that can only prognosticate minimal - if any - benefit. With 8.9 million unnecessary hospitalizations and 7.5 million unnecessary medical procedures per year, we have many individuals thrust into the unnecessary danger of a potentially fatal consequence. Thus, invasive and unnecessary medical procedures must be considered as part of the deaths due to iatrogenic causes. Of particular concern to the IMVA, is the unnecessarily high C-section rate in the U.S. and other countries, and the entire medical process surrounding birth. The IMVA supports efforts toward achieving a more natural birthing process that minimizes the use of medications and drugs.
National and international medical and health organizations are in sort of a "Catch 22" predicament -- unable to honestly publicize deleterious effects of vaccines and other medical procedures, since this would lower public trust and confidence, which in turn would, for example, decrease vaccination rates and profits. Interestingly, the IOM and the CDC publicly declare they are clueless as to what is causing the notable increase in autism -- with one U.S. child in 166 affected. Some have gone so far as describing this problem as a modern holocaust. The major health organizations have lost their objectivity and dedication to human welfare, preferring to defend the interests of the pharmaceutical companies that flood these organizations with money and staff.
The long-standing use of mercury as a preservative in vaccines is perhaps the greatest medical nightmare -- a case in point screaming for dramatic changes in the medical establishment -- and speaks of the need for the IMVA as an independent review body. It is here where the love affair of medical science and pharmaceuticals has abandoned all ability to reason. And, writes Sharyl Attkisson, in a recent CBS News report, �the results could be devastating to vaccine makers and federal health officials who have steadfastly defended the use of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in childhood vaccines.� We often worry about the terrorists abroad, but medical terrorism is discreet and cleverly disguised in a facade of short term "safety studies." The bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of American children are living with the fallout. The cost to raise those surviving with late-onset learning disabilities and autism following childhood vaccination is staggering and has become an immense burden that is compromising school systems and impacting society in general. Medical authorities have chosen to ignore the documented observations of thousands of parents, whose children were previously noted at well-baby visits as developmentally normal, but then lost language, social contact, and regressed into autism following vaccination.
The IOM, CDC, AMA, AAP, WHO, UNICEF and FDA are proving to be ineffective in gauging vaccine safety and other critical medical interventions. Either inadvertently or deliberately, public health organizations have endangered the health of the nation and the world with an arrogance that has led, step by tragic step, to the present situation: infants being bombarded with toxic viruses and other biological components, injected one after another in a brutal attack on their immature immunological and neurological systems. Such arrogance has locked the entire medical establishment around the world into a pre-emptive war: injurious to children, yet threatening contemp -- or worse -- on any physician or scientist courageous enough to challenge the status quo. The void that once existed for an impartial international investigative group has now been filled in the IMVA.
Tragedies are evident in many areas including: food additives and preservatives, pesticides, water fluoridation, cancer and AIDS treatments, anti-depressive medications, and other drugs having only marginal, if any, benefit. The IMVA supports improving nutrition as a first line of defense against disease--it promotes wellness rather than continuous disease and treatment cycles.
The IMVA's goal is to resolve the above problems by creating a new medical paradigm through a synthesis of all primary healthcare paths, eliminating aspects not standing up to close scrutiny. The IMVA will continue to expand in its role as a truly independent body to public health, providing balanced information to parents, patients, and physicians. Our conviction is that better-informed people will have a great impact on better medical treatment.
International Medical Veritas Association
http://www.imva.info
Gary Goldman, Ph.D.
Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD
Michael Primero, B.Sc., M.Sc.Soc
Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati, Ph.D., DABT, DABVT
Jewel Euto, Ed.D, Ph.D., N.D.
Michael Godfrey, M.D., MB.BS, FACAM, FACNEM
Boyd Haley, Ph.D.
Viera Scheibner, Ph.D.
John Parks Trowbridge, M. D., FACAM, Dipl. ABCMT
Bob Dublin, DC
Nancy Massotto, Ph.D.
Sandra Desorgher, MA-FScN
Maureen Fontaine, B.Ed, ECS
Bronwyn Hancock, B.Sc., Cert. Nutr.
Luciana Valentim, B.Sc Oc, B.Ed - Liason Brazil
Sallye Wentz
Dawn Winkler
Joan Mootry
Bob Flint - Liason Maine
Edda West - VRAN - Canada
Georgia Janisch
Liam Scheff
Ingri Cassell
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