CAN's Position "Shocking and Disappointing"

After a thousand parents and doctors saw slides of ileal and colonic biopsies with inflammation (as verified by PCR) due to vaccine-strains of measles virus at our recent DAN! conference, it was a shocking disappointment to hear CAN's endorsement of the very flawed Danish study. An epidemiological survey in a nation that injects ethylmercury (as

thimerosal) far more prudently than in the U.S. is being used to implicitly endorse the actions (and continued denials) of the those agencies that mandated the mercury-laden Hep B vaccine to newborns from 1991 to 2001.

In my opinion this was most likely what started the gut and immune damage in many susceptible children leading to their inability to subsequently handle the MMR vaccine. To take the MMR outside of the entire vaccine picture is scientific folly.

I hope CAN executives will have an opportunity to see the MV-related data of top-notch scientists such as Wakefield, Buie, Krigsman, O'Leary, and others, and direct more of their funds to creating diagnostic and treatment clinics. I predict that the epidemic we are seeing now will start to subside in 5 or 6 years, even though we have many other environmental toxins lining up to take on mercury's job. In the meantime, we have thousands upon thousands of very sick kids that need medical help much more NOW than they need genetic studies.

- Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D., physician, grand-parent of an ASD child, and author of Children with Starving Brains.