Have We All Missed This Really Big Cause of Autism?

Here’s compelling evidence that ultrasound scans may be the real cause of autism. Look at the evidence and then decide. I think there is possibly real cause to discard existing theories. We can only get a solution if we find the right cause of the problem, I’m sure you will agree.

I have made no secret out of the fact that it’s definitely NOT mercury. That has been disproven and the only people who cling to it are seriously underperforming intellectuals, who can’t accept real evidence that their pet ideas are WRONG!

I have repeated several times in my publications that children who never had ANY vaccine have been getting autism spectrum problems. That fits well with the model I like, which is live rogue measles organism. One sibling or vaccinated child could therefore, in theory, infect an unvaccinated child, who inherits the problem.

But here is a completely new model, right out of left field, which at least must have us all thinking… the evidence is just juicy!

For the source I turn to a new book by Jim West: Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography of Human Studies Conducted in Modern China. It’s an entirely new bibliography of ultrasound science and it’s something that, with a few exceptions, you will NOT see reproduced here in the West, where ObGyn is BIG money.

The Myth…

The word “ultrasound” commonly refers to diagnostic ultrasound, an acoustic technology utilized to view images of the fetus in real time, its position within the mother, and to view the mother’s reproductive organs. It is an economic boon to medical practitioners who advocate its routine use.

Diagnostic ultrasound has been in routine use for many decades. Ultrasound is far from ordinary sound, however.

It is a highly unusual form of sound when used for the purpose of prenatal or obstetric diagnostic examinations. Humans ordinarily are capable of hearing sounds in the range of 20 to 20,000 cycles per second (hertz). Ultrasound for fetal examination carries a frequency in the range of 3 to 9 megahertz, millions of cycles per second, above the EMF frequencies of the AM radio band.

Diagnostic ultrasound is widely declared to be “harmless” to the fetus¹, despite some mothers describing via online forums such as The Thinking Mother’s Revolution, vaginal bleeding and pain, and others describing every detail related to ultrasound and pharmaceutical or vaccine associated damage to their child.

Ultrasound is now being applied to most of the entire world population during its fetal stage.

If it should emerge that there is real cause for concern—and it HAS now emerged—then this should stop, immediately, before it causes untold damage to the whole human psyche.

Critics argue, for example, that the exponential rise in autism incidence is a product of fetal exposure to ultrasound. If they are correct, then it may take many generations to recover from this misguided application of medical technology.

Remember the story of malaria? It means “bad air” (mal-aria) because that’s what was supposed to cause it at the time. Until the recognition that a mosquito-vectored parasite was the true cause, there was never going to be any effective progress. But people couldn’t see it at the time.

Is autism the new faulty “bad air” model? That it is being caused by widespread use of ultrasounds for in-utero imaging, at precisely the time when the fetus is most vulnerable.

Chinese Human Studies

These were carried out during the “explosion” of ultrasound use, in the years 1988 to 2011. The findings are pretty shocking. Jim West has also called on publicized trials carried out here in the West, where animal and cell studies clearly indicated a danger from diagnostic ultrasound. These were cancelled and had their funding withdrawn or were simply ignored by the greedy profession, dazzled by pretend science toys and anxious to reap a huge harvest of money.

In one sentence: ultrasound is NOT safe and damages the human fetus, precisely when it is most vulnerable.

By damage I mean: autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, personality abnormalities, eye damage, various malformations and possibly immune disorders.

Yet Western medical authorities loudly proclaim that diagnostic ultrasound is “harmless” and has “no known risks”. Well of course the risks are not known, if funding for studies of the dangers was deliberately withdrawn!

However, there are voices of caution, they are just not being listened to in the frenzy to sell this technique to a gullible public.

For example, Dr. Mendelsohn, former Chairman of the Hospital Licensing Committee of the State of Illinois and former National Director of Project Head Start’s Medical Consultation had this to say:

“Ultrasound is the latest example of an unproven technology being sold to the public as being ‘perfectly safe.’ It falls in the same class as painting radium on watches, fluoroscoping children’s feet in shoe stores, routine mammography, routine chest X-rays, radiation therapy for tonsils, exposing army personnel to atomic bomb tests – in each case, the medical profession failed to take the necessary steps to protect people against a malignant technology whose risks were already well understood.”²

And Caroline Rogers, referring to a large population study by Grether et al (2009) said this:

“Particularly confounding is the fact that Autism Spectrum Disorder plagues the children of high-income, well-educated families who have the best obstetrical care money can buy. Why would women who took their prenatal vitamins, observed healthy diets, refrained from smoking or drinking and attended all regularly scheduled prenatal visits bear children with profound neurologically based problems?”³

So, Do Ultrasounds Cause Autism?

Note that in his work, Jim West is wisely not stating that ultrasound “causes” autism. Simply that it adds to the toxic synergy and thus initiates vulnerability to other known stressors, such as vaccines, pesticides and other pollutants, stealth pathogens and pharmaceuticals.

Everyone is fixated on vaccinations, because autism often shows only after the routine vaccination program commences. The child appears healthy up to that time. I use the word “appears” advisedly. I already pointed out in a recent newsletter that Cuba, which has a vaccination rate around 95% (one of the highest uptakes in the world), still has very little autism, compared to Europe or the USA.

These demographic observations should cause us to think hard about what we suppose we know. Logically, you could say the Cuba story really counts against vaccination being the problem at all!

Let’s dig a little deeper into the Chinese figures…

Unknown to Western scientists, the hazards of ultrasound have been confirmed in China since the late 1980s, where thousands of women, volunteering for abortion, thousands of maternal-fetal pairs, were exposed to carefully controlled diagnostic ultrasound and the abortive matter then analyzed via laboratory techniques.

From these human studies, Professor Ruo Feng, of Nanjing University, published guidelines in 2000:

“Commercial or educational fetal ultrasound imaging should be strictly eliminated. Ultrasound for the identification of fetal sex and fetal entertainment imaging should be strictly eliminated. For the best early pregnancy, avoid ultrasound.”

Dr. Feng is very clear. Avoid is not an ambiguous word!

Jim West’s Book

The Chinese Human Studies are not generally available. You will not find them through Google or other search engines or medical databases. Even if a researcher knew the titles, the studies would not be found.

So Jim West has done a magnificent job.

If you are of childbearing age, or you have a daughter who is, you may want to read Jim’s compilation of missing data about the dangers of ultrasound in pregnancy. It is now available, published as a book with commentary, (or Kindle) with illustrative graphs and tables.

To read the entire press release about the book, go here.

To order the book, go here.

Source

http://alternative-doctor.com/problems-with-science/big-cause-of-autism/

Questions about Prenatal Ultrasound and the Alarming Increase in Autism

by Caroline Rodgers

© 2006 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.

[Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 80, Winter 2006.]

In May 2006, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed what too many parents and educators already knew: The incidence of autism is high, making it an “urgent public health issue,” according to Dr. José Cordero, director of the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. Only 12 years ago autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was so rare that it occurred in just one in 10,000 births.(1) Today ASD, which is characterized by a range of learning and social impairments, now occurs in one in 166 children (2)—with no sign of leveling off.

The steep increase in autism goes beyond the US: It is a global phenomenon, occurring in industrialized nations around the world. In the UK, teachers report one in 86 primary school children has special needs related to ASD.(3)

The cause of autism has been pinned on everything from “emotionally remote” mothers (since discredited) to vaccines, genetics, immunological disorders, environmental toxins and maternal infections. Today most researchers theorize that autism is caused by a complex interplay of genetics and environmental triggers. A far simpler possibility worthy of investigation is the pervasive use of prenatal ultrasound, which can cause potentially dangerous thermal effects.

Health practitioners involved in prenatal care have reason to be concerned about the use of ultrasound. Although proponents point out that ultrasound has been used in obstetrics for 50 years and early studies indicated it was safe for both mother and child, enough research has implicated it in neurodevelopmental disorders to warrant serious attention.

At a 1982 World Health Organization (WHO) meeting sponsored by the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) and other organizations, an international group of experts reported that “[t]here are several frequently quoted studies that claim to show that exposure to ultrasound in utero does not cause any significant abnormalities in the offspring. …However, these studies can be criticized on several grounds, including the lack of a control population and/or inadequate sample size, and exposure after the period of major organogenesis; this invalidates their conclusions….”(4)

Early studies showed that subtle effects of neurological damage linked to ultrasound were implicated by an increased incidence in left-handedness in boys (a marker for brain problems when not hereditary) and speech delays.(5) Then in August 2006, Pasko Rakic, chair of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Neurobiology, announced the results of a study in which pregnant mice underwent various durations of ultrasound.(6) The brains of the offspring showed damage consistent with that found in the brains of people with autism. The research, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, also implicated ultrasound in neurodevelopmental problems in children, such as dyslexia, epilepsy, mental retardation and schizophrenia, and showed that damage to brain cells increased with longer exposures.(7)

Dr. Rakic’s study, which expanded on prior research with similar results in 2004 (8), is just one of many animal experiments and human studies conducted over the years indicating that prenatal ultrasound can be harmful to babies. While some questions remain unanswered, based on available information, health practitioners must seriously consider the possible consequences of both routine and diagnostic use of ultrasound, as well as electronic fetal heart monitors, which may be neither non-invasive nor safe. If pregnant women knew all the facts, would they choose to expose their unborn children to a technology that—despite its increasingly entrenched position in modern obstetrics—has little or no proven benefit?

Problems with Sound and Heat

One challenge that ultrasound operators face is keeping the transducer positioned over the part of the fetus the operator is trying to visualize. When fetuses move away from the stream of high-frequency sound waves, they may be feeling vibrations, heat or both. As the FDA warned in 2004, “ultrasound is a form of energy, and even at low levels, laboratory studies have shown it can produce physical effect in tissue, such as jarring vibrations and a rise in temperature.”(9) This is consistent with research conducted in 2001 in which an ultrasound transducer aimed directly at a miniature hydrophone placed in a woman’s uterus recorded sound “as loud as a subway train coming into the station.”(10)

A rise in temperature of fetal tissue—especially since the expectant mother cannot even feel it—might not seem alarming, but temperature increases can cause significant damage to a developing fetus’s central nervous system, according to research.(11) Across mammalian species, elevated maternal or fetal body temperatures have been shown to result in birth defects in offspring.(12) An extensive review of literature on maternal hyperthermia in a range of mammals found that “central nervous system (CNS) defects appear to be the most common consequence of hyperthermia in all species, and cell death or delay in proliferation of neuroblasts [embryonic cells that develop into nerve cells] is believed to be one major explanation for these effects.”(13)

Why should neurodevelopmental defects in rats or other mammals be of concern to expecting women? Because, as Cornell University researchers proved in 2001, brain development proceeds in the same manner “across many mammalian species, including human infants.”(14) The team found “95 neural developmental milestones” that helped them pinpoint the sequence of brain growth events in different species.(15) Therefore, if repeated experiments show that elevated heat caused by ultrasound damages fetal brains in rats and other mammals, one can logically assume that it can harm human brains, too.

In fact, the FDA and professional medical associations know that prenatal ultrasound can be dangerous to humans, which is why they have consistently warned against the non-medical or “keepsake” ultrasound portrait studios that have cropped up in malls throughout the country.(16)

The risks to the baby are potentially higher in commercial enterprises due to the higher acoustic output required for high-definition images, a potentially long session—as technicians hunt for suitable images—and the employment of ultrasound operators who may have no medical background or appropriate training. These variables, along with factors such as cavitation (a bubbling effect caused by ultrasound that can damage cells) and on-screen safety indicators that may be inaccurate by a factor ranging from 2–6 (17), make the impact of ultrasound uncertain even in expert hands. Quite simply, if ultrasound can injure babies, it can cause the same damage whether done for routine, diagnostic or “entertainment” purposes.

Elevated Maternal Temperatures Cause Birth Defects

Understanding what happens when the fetus’s temperature increases, whether caused by an elevation in maternal core temperature or by the more local effect of ultrasound, is the key to appreciating prenatal ultrasound risks. An individual’s body temperature varies throughout the day due to various factors such as circadian rhythms, hormone fluctuations and physical exertion. While people may have up to 1.5° F in each direction of what is considered a “normal” core temperature, the overall average among people is 98.6° F. An increase of only 1.4° F to 100° F can cause headaches, body aches and fatigue, enough to get the individual excused from work. A temperature of 107° F can cause brain damage or death.

A core temperature of about 98.6° F is important because that is the point at which many important enzyme reactions occur. Temperature affects the actual shape of the proteins that create enzymes, and improperly shaped proteins are unable to do their jobs correctly. As factors such as the amount of heat or duration of exposure increase, enzyme reactions become less efficient until they are permanently inactivated, unable to function correctly even if the temperature returns to normal.(18)

Because temperature is critical to proper enzyme reactions, the body has built-in methods to regulate its core temperature. For instance, when it is too low, shivering warms it up; when it is too high, sweating wicks off the heat. For obvious reasons, fetuses cannot cool off by sweating. However, they have another defense against temperature increases: Each cell contains something called heat shock (HS) proteins that temporarily stop the formation of enzymes when temperatures reach dangerously high levels.(19)

Complicating the issue is the fact that ultrasound heats bone at a different rate than muscle, soft tissue or amniotic fluid.(20) Further, as bones calcify, they absorb and retain more heat. During the third trimester, the baby’s skull can heat up 50 times faster than its surrounding tissue (21), subjecting parts of the brain that are close to the skull to secondary heat that can continue after the ultrasound exam has concluded.

Elevated temperatures that might only temporarily affect the mother can have devastating effects on a developing embryo. A 1998 article in the medical journal Cell Stress & Chaperones reported that “the HS response is inducible in early embryonic life but it fails to protect embryos against damage at certain stages of development.” The authors noted, “With activation of the HS response, normal protein synthesis is suspended…but survival is achieved at the expense of normal development.”(22)

Autism, Genetics and Twin Studies

What does elevated body temperature have to do with autism? Geneticists are trying to crack the DNA mysteries behind ASD. Recently researchers linked two mutations of the same X chromosome gene to autism in two unrelated families, although they do not yet understand at what stage these genes were damaged.(23) Because sibling and twin studies show a higher prevalence of autism among children in families with one autistic child, geneticists expected to find inherited factors, but despite millions of dollars invested in the search, no clear explanation indicates that ASD is inherited. Perhaps scientists need look no further than at the thermal effects of ultrasound for many answers.

If prenatal ultrasound is responsible for some cases of autism, it stands to reason that if one twin were autistic, the other would have a high probability of being affected, since both would have been exposed to ultrasound at the same time. In both identical and fraternal twins, one twin could be more severely affected than the other if he or she happened to take the brunt of the heat or sound waves. In the case of fraternal twins, since autism strikes males between three to five times more often than females, the sex of the twins also could make a difference in outcome.

A 2002 study showed that simply being a twin substantially increased the likelihood of autism, making twinning a risk factor.(24) Could this increased twin risk factor have to do with the practice of giving mothers with multiple gestations more ultrasounds than those expecting single births? While not discounting the role genetics may play in autism, the possible impact of prenatal ultrasound deserves serious consideration.

Ultrasound Warnings Unheeded

The idea that a prenatal ultrasound can be hazardous is not new. The previously mentioned 1982 WHO report, in its summary “Effects of Ultrasound on Biological Systems,” stated that “…animal studies suggest that neurological, behavioral, developmental, immunological, haematological changes and reduced fetal weight can result from exposure to ultrasound.”(25)

Two years later, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a conference assessing ultrasound risks, it reported that when birth defects occurred, the acoustic output was usually high enough to cause considerable heat.(26). Although the NIH has since stated that the report “is no longer viewed…as guidance for current medical practice,” the facts remain unchanged.

Despite the findings of these two major scientific gatherings, in 1993 the FDA approved an eight-fold increase in the potential acoustical output of ultrasound equipment (27), greatly increasing the possibility of disastrous pregnancy outcomes caused by overheating. Can the fact that this increase in potential thermal effects happened during the same period of time the incidence of autism increased nearly 60-fold be merely coincidental?

Hot Tubs, Steam Rooms, Saunas and Maternal Fevers

If the culprit is heat, then what about other situations in which heat impacts pregnancy? A 2003 study titled, “A report of heat on embryos and fetuses” in the International Journal of Hyperthermia states, “hyperthermia during pregnancy can cause embryonic death, abortion, growth retardation and developmental defects.”(28) It further states, “An elevation of maternal body temperature by 2 degrees Centigrade [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit] for at least 24 hours during fever can cause a range of developmental defects.”(29) The report noted that necessary data to draw conclusions on exposure times less than 24 hours were lacking (30), leaving open the possibility that elevated maternal temperatures for shorter periods may adversely affect fetuses.

A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that “women who used hot tubs or saunas during early pregnancy face up to triple the risk of bearing babies with spina bifida or brain defects.”(31). Hot tubs and baths present greater dangers than other heat therapies such as saunas and steam rooms because the immersion in water foils the body’s attempt to cool off via perspiration, in much the same way fetuses cannot escape elevated temperatures in the womb.

All of this taken together establishes the fact that heat, whether caused by elevated maternal temperature or by an ultrasound transducer that remained over one area too long, can set into motion damaging changes in a developing baby. Using common sense, why would anyone think that intruding upon the continuous, seamless development of the fetus, which has for millions of years completed its work without assistance, be without consequences?

Vaccine and Thimerosal Controversy

Despite long-standing evidence that ultrasound induces thermal effects and that thermal effects can harm fetal brain development, the cause of autism has remained so elusive to researchers that many autism societies use a puzzle piece as part of their logos. Particularly confounding is the fact that ASD plagues the children of high-income, well-educated families who have the best obstetrical care money can buy. Why would women who took their prenatal vitamins, observed healthy diets, refrained from smoking or drinking and attended all regularly scheduled prenatal visits bear children with profound neurologically based problems?

Some believe that childhood vaccines, at first available only to those who could afford them, cause autism. Many vaccines contained thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, which was thought to have a cumulative neurotoxic effect on children, especially as the number of childhood vaccines increased during the same period of years that the prevalence of autism increased. However, after an exhaustive review in 1999, the FDA found no evidence of harm in the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines.(32)

Despite those findings, that same year the FDA, NIH, CDC, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) together urged vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal in childhood vaccines.(33) Pharmaceutical companies complied, and ultimately reduced the infant thimerosal exposure by 98%.(34)

Interestingly, not only did autism rates fail to decrease, they continued to increase. ASD increases are between 10 to 17 percent every year, according to the Autism Society of America (35), indicating that thimerosal is not to blame.

Thimerosal was not the only area of concern in the vaccine-autism controversy. Many people believed that a correlation existed between the triple vaccine MMR (mumps, measles and rubella) and ASD. However, a large, retrospective epidemiological study of more than 30,000 children in Japan between 1988 and 1996 found that the autism rate continued to climb after the vaccine was withdrawn.(36) Those results were no different than the outcome of a 1999 study published in The Lancet, that showed no corresponding jump in autism in the UK after the introduction of the MMR vaccine.(37)

A 2001 study published in JAMA examining California autism and MMR vaccination rates said the results did “not suggest an association between MMR immunization among young people and an increase in autism occurrence.”(38) While concerns about vaccines and mercury exposure should not be dismissed, evidence to date does not implicate either one as a major factor in the explosion of ASD cases.

Global Autism Epidemic

Statistics on the increase of autism worldwide among industrialized nations show that it has emerged in just the last few decades across vastly different environments and cultures. What do countries and regions with climates, diets and exposure to known toxins as disparate as the US, Japan, Scandinavia, Australia, India and the UK have in common? No common factor in the water, air, local pesticides, diet or even building materials and clothing can explain the emergence and relentless increase in this serious, life-long neurodevelopmental disorder.

What all industrial countries do have in common is the quiet yet pervasive change in obstetrical care: All of them use routine prenatal ultrasound on pregnant women.

In countries with nationalized healthcare, where virtually all pregnant women are exposed to ultrasound, the autism rates are even higher than in the US, where due to disparities in income and health insurance, some 30 percent of pregnant women do not yet undergo ultrasound scanning.

The Changes in Ultrasound

In considering initial studies indicating that prenatal ultrasound is safe, one must factor in the ways in which the technology and its applications have continually changed and how that has altered the potential exposure of unborn children. Besides the huge increase in allowable acoustic output in the early 1990s, the following changes have made the field of prenatal ultrasound riskier than ever:

• The number of ultrasound scans conducted during each pregnancy has increased, with women often receiving two or more scans even in low-risk situations.(39) Women in “high-risk” situations may receive many more scans—which, ironically, may raise their risk.
• The range of time within an embryo or fetus’s development when ultrasound is performed has extended to very early in the first trimester and continues into the third trimester, right up to delivery. Fetal heart monitors that are used prior to delivery—sometimes for hours—have not been shown to reduce neurological problems and may increase them.(40)
• The development of the vaginal probe, which positions the beam of sound much closer to the embryo or fetus, may put it at higher risk.
• The use of Doppler ultrasound, which is used to study blood flow or to monitor the baby’s heartbeat, has increased. According to the 2006 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, “routine Doppler ultrasound in pregnancy does not have health benefits for women or babies and may do some harm.”(41)

Increasingly Common Birth Defects

Dr. Rakic’s research team, cited earlier in this article for its recent study on mouse brains and ultrasound, pointed out that “the probe was held stationary for up to 35 minutes, meaning that essentially the entire fetal mouse brain would have been continually exposed to the ultrasound for 35 minutes…in sharp contrast to the duration and volume of the human fetal brain exposed by ultrasound which will typically not linger on a given tissue volume for greater than one minute.”(42) This is an excellent point, which is worth pursuing.

One of the most popular non-medical uses of ultrasound, which can extend a medically indicated session, is to determine the sex of the baby. Could this have a connection to the increase in birth defects involving the genitals and urinary tract? The March of Dimes says that these types of birth defects affect “as many as 1 in 10 babies,” adding that “specific causes of most of these conditions is unknown.”(43)

Following this line of thought, consider what other parts of the body are scrutinized by ultrasound technicians, such as the heart, where serious defects have soared nearly 250 percent between 1989 and 1996.(44) The list of unexplained birth defects is not a short one, and in light of what is emerging about prenatal ultrasound, scientists should take another look at all recent trends, as well as the baffling 30% increase in premature births since 1981, now affecting one in every eight children (45), with many showing subsequent neurological damage.(46)

Although many claim that ultrasound benefits outweigh the risks, that statement has no basis and much evidence is to the contrary. A large randomized trial of 15,151 pregnant women, conducted by the RADIUS Study Group, found that in low-risk cases, high-risk subgroups and even in cases of multiple gestations or major anomalies, the use of ultrasound did not result in improved outcome in the pregnancies.(47) The argument that ultrasound is either reassuring to the parents or provides an early opportunity for bonding pales in the face of the possible risks that are emerging as new data become available. Parents and health practitioners may not be able to easily turn away from this window on the womb and resume more traditional practices in obstetrics and midwifery. However, with the disturbing trend in autism and other equally troubling, unexplained birth-related trends, it does not make sense to blindly employ a technology that is not reliably safe for unborn babies.

Caroline Rodgers

Editor’s Note: Read more about ultrasound on our Web site:

• Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts – by Beverley Lawrence Beech
• Ultrasound: More Harm than Good? – by Marsden Wagner
• Search more about ultrasound.

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48. Source https://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/ultrasoundrodgers.asp

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Polio   Pesticides  Virus hunters

[Jim West resurrected the real cause of Polio–poisons such as DDT, and the main cause of most Infectious scares (eg SARS, West Nile, Swine flu)–being Toxic air.]

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An example of the worldwide vaccine argument situation by Jim West

Poliovirus Isolation:  No Evidence by Jim West

[2015 May] 50 Human Studies, in Utero, Conducted in Modern China, Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography by Jim West  1) Supports Western critics who have long argued that ultrasound contributes to various neonatal and childhood diseases, and neurological epidemics such as ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and eye diseases.  2) Supports and revives earlier Western animal studies that are critical of ultrasound, yet had been rejected or ignored.  3) Enables arguments for novel disease causation models, for example, chorioamnionitis, neonatal jaundice, bone and tissue malformation, immune dysfunction, and a wide variety of diseases related to broad-spectrum hormonal dysfunction.

2012 Aug] Whooping Cough epidemic / Petrochemical causation by Jim West, NYC

[2012 Aug] Argument Against: Polio in India (vaccine caused) by Jim West, NYC

FLULAVAL Vaccine ‘Package Insert’ Warning: Vaccine Not Demonstrated To Decrease Influenza, Associated With Many Serious Diseases by Jim West

[2010 July] Whooping Cough vs Pesticide Programs. California Counties 2010 by Jim West All zero incidence counties have no mandated pesticide spray programs for moths, etc.   Therefore three redefinitions can be postulated:  1) Pertussis is a seasonal pesticide disease, although it possibly could occur (even off-season) due to indoor air pollution (stove exhaust, etc), or other sources.  2) Pertussis is not germ caused.   3)The pertussis paradigm is misinfo to generally confuse pesticide and other pollution diagnostics and to exploit the resulting confusion and disorders.  Pertussis is a respiratory disease and its symptoms are the body’s attempts to avoid breathing polluted air, and the body’s attempts to alert the community.

[2010 June] Swine Flu School Epidemics: Air Toxicology by Jim West

[2002] Pesticides and Polio: A Critique of Scientific Literature By Jim West

Images of Poliomyelitis: A Critique of Scientific Literature by Jim West
Pesticides And Polio   http://www.wellwithin1.com/overview.htm
F.D.R. At Campobello
West Nile Virus Epidemics and Air Pollution
SARS and Air Pollution

“I always find it riveting to come across an independent investigator who is breaking new ground, against all odds.  Jim West is such a person.  His meticulous analysis of West Nile Disease has turned the establishment on its head.  We should all thank him for his work.  If I were the king of Pulitzers, I would give him a dozen.  He is what truly deep reporting is all about.  In a sane world, his revelations would bring about the firing of scores of so-called medical journalists and disease researchers, and he would be sitting at the top of the heap — not in order to exercise arbitrary power, but simply because he has trumped the lazy and the incompetent and the lying professionals who are supposed to tell us what is going on.” —-  Jon Rappoport

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In 1946, when the Great Polio Epidemic was exploding, Zimmerman and Lavine advocated that farmers spray 5% DDT solutions upon dairy animals during feeding, in the air, upon their bodies and bedding. DDT Dosage In The Early 1950s

[Smallpox in Remote Regions.] “Early 16th and 17th century smallpox epidemics in the remote regions of SE Asia and U.S. can be explained toxicologically.  European-American trappers and hunters worked those regions.  They used arsenic trioxide powder to make ‘arsenic soap’ to process and preserve the animal hides which they carried to distributors.  If they camped upstream from an Indian village then the Indians would experience arsenic poisoning, thus the smallpox blisters and Indian epidemics.  This is how the Lewis and Clark Expedition found already existing Indian smallpox epidemics far from Euro-American industry.  The fur industry was already there with the Indians.” – Jim West

Swine Flu 2009 “Orthodox virology omits toxicology, and is thus void.  Toxicological  causation is obvious and toxicology is avoided by the media like the plague. Forget the intellectual, scientific intrigue of virology.  Without toxicology, virology is a mind-trap.  Virology is the deadly virus. Orthodoxy could claim that a “virus” has any number of fearful characteristics, but those characteristics are meaningless if the victims are poisoned.  Without poisoning, perhaps the virus is a nutrient.  Perhaps there is no virus.  Most likely, the “virus” is harmless human nucleic acid, rearranged as a response to poisoning, and thus always a test for said “virus” would be positive during periods of poisoning.”

“The vaccination programs are irrelevant to the decline of polio, while pesticides correlate perfectly with polio.  The unfunded, ostracized theory of poison causality far exceeds all other theories in simplicity, exactitude, and directness regarding correlations within all data areas: dosage, physiology, etiology, epidemiology, economics, and politics.”–Jim West http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm

“The official West Nile virus paradigm actually does make political sense. After all, you can’t expect Mayor Giuliani to say, “Thousands of birds are falling from the sky because of petrochemical emissions in Jersey, illegal emissions, major airport take-off lanes over residential zones, congested automobile traffic, and gasoline with 15% MTBE, which is a poison and neurotoxic precursor. Air pollution has triggered the deaths of birds already burdened with pesticides, mercury, and lead residues. If you’re a visiting tourist, chances are you’ll be OK, and NYC loves your money. So, let’s all pretend it’s a deadly virus and endure a ritual of mind-numbing fear, dramatized by occasional unscheduled pesticide sprayings by helicopters over crowded streets and parks.”–Jim West www.geocities.com/noxot

“My site has several articles by the Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel regarding injections of highly dilute poisons, similar to formaldehyde in Salk vaccine, which was 1:4000 concentration. Carrel injected carcinogens at 1:5000 to 1:250000 and caused reliably, cancer in chickens.”—Jim West (Harpub) www.geocities.com/harpub   

“April 1953, leading DDT consultant, Dr Kumm, became Director of Polio Research for NFIP.”—Jim West http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm

“In 1983, via new legislation, DDT was allowed back into the U.S. marketplace, but only in pesticide blends. Within only a few months of this re-entry, a new kind of polio epidemic suddenly occurred. It was labelled “post-polio”, the re-emergence of polio symptoms in former victims. This has involved approximately 600,000 victims.”–Jim West http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm

“The injection of puree of diseased brain tissue into the brains of dogs was the method preferred by Louis Pasteur to establish virus causality with the CNS disease, rabies. A recent, definitive biography of Pasteur finds him to be a most important publicist for germ theory, a crucial publicist for rabies virus causality, and that his rabies experiments were biased and unsupported by independent studies. (Gerald L. Geison, The Private Science Of Louis Pasteur, Princeton University Press (1995)).”—Jim West  http://www.geocities.com/harpub/overview.htm

“Central nervous system diseases other than polio continue in the U.S. and throughout the world: acute flaccid paralysis, chronic fatigue syndrome, encephalitis, meningitis, muscular sclerosis, and rarely in humans, rabies.”–Jim West http://www.geocities.com/harpub/pol_all.htm

The word “virus” is ancient Latin, meaning “slime” or “poison.” Mainstream science admits that most viruses are harmless, yet the word “virus ” adds to a biased and highly promoted language of fear regarding nature. Definitions of viruses; range from “pathogenic” to “not usually pathogenic” – the more popular the media source, the more frightening the definition. Less fearful definitions would change the relationship between the medical industry and its “patients.”
Paradoxically, early virus studies considered virus filtrates to be a poison, not a microbe, thus the name virus. Today, we know that viruses are information. Now, nearly a half-century later, the validity of Dr. Biskinds work appears even more certain. Again, according to Biskind:
It was even known by 1945 that DDT is stored in the body fat of mammals and appears in the milk. With this foreknowledge the series of catastrophic events that followed the most intensive campaign of mass poisoning in known human history, should not have surprised the experts. Yet, far from admitting a causal relationship so obvious that in any other field of biology it would be instantly accepted, virtually the entire apparatus of communication, lay and scientific alike, has been devoted to denying, concealing, suppressing, distorting and attempts to convert into its opposite, the overwhelming evidence. Libel, slander and economic boycott have not been overlooked in this campaign.
The unique correlations between CNS disease and CNS toxins present a variety of research opportunities not only in medical science, but political science, philosophy, media studies, psychology, and sociology. Images of Poliomyelitis: A Critique of Scientific Literature by Jim West

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50 Human Studies: A New Bibliography

This is the silver bullet for the extremely hazardous practice of ultrasound, a must read for anyone who cares about children’s health or the health of society.

Prior to this publication, the Chinese Human Studies, with few exceptions, had not been acknowledged within the Western realm.

The CHS are modern clinical studies, with analytic technology generally beyond the tradition of Western ultrasound science. The CHS were conducted during a virtual explosion of ultrasound research in China, 1988‑2011. They directly investigate damage to virtually all aspects and stages of the human fetus. They support and reference Western animal and cell studies that had been neutralized, ignored, or denied funding for continuation. The public gets the “harmless” message from birth gurus like Heidi Murkoff.

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