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Byrne, Rhonda, 269
caffeine, 93
California, 18n, 19, 36, 167, 186–87, 229, 272
vaccination rates in, 305
measles outbreak in, 19
mumps outbreak in, 306
pertussis outbreak in, 306
California, University of, at Los Angeles, 70
California, University of, at Santa Cruz, 235n
California Department of Public Health, 306
Callous Disregard (Wakefield), 303–4
Calman, Kenneth, 100
calomel, 119–20
Campbell-Smith, Patricia, 288
Canada, 28
cancer, 58, 120, 260
breast, 138–40, 193, 270
drinking milk and, 48n
Cardiff University, 163
Carnegie, Andrew, 41
Carrey, Jim, 14n, 256, 258
Carter, Jimmy, 65
case series, 110
Casey, Rhonda, 90, 91
Catholic Church, 81n, 100
cats, 40n, 120
causation, correlation and, 47, 48n, 209
Cedillo, Michael, 181–87, 190–91, 192, 285, 295–97
Cedillo, Michelle, 181–86, 192, 285–97
Omnibus Proceeding and, 190–91, 285, 290, 291, 295–97
Cedillo, Theresa, 181–87, 190–91, 192, 196, 285, 295–97
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 54, 72, 108, 147–50, 195, 199, 221, 223, 280–81
1999 recommendations on thimerosal and, 6, 125–30, 140
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of (ACIP), 152–53, 173
anonymous messages sent to, 200
Blaxill’s views on, 222
flu and, 62, 63, 64
Kirby’s book and, 207, 213
McCarthy and, 255
Morgellons syndrome and, 95–96
pertussis and, 280–81
“Unexplained Dermopathy Project” of, 96n
vaccine compensation and, 147, 148
vaccine safety and, 148, 150, 170, 171, 173
central nervous system, 40, 120
cerebral palsy, 151, 164
Chadwick, Nicholas, 291–92
Chain, Ernst Boris, 36
Chávez, Hugo, 8
chelation therapy, 235, 260, 261, 263–64
Chen, Robert, 108, 110–11, 150
Kennedy on, 223, 226
Cherry, James, 70
Chicago, University of, 78n
chicken pox vaccine, 7
childhood disintegrative disorder, 81
Childhood Neurology (textbook), 289
child rearing, obsession with, 6, 9–10
Chin-Caplan, Sylvia, 286, 292, 293n, 296–97
Chinese herbs, 288
cholera, 39–40
Christian Science, 33–34, 268
cigarette taxes, 210
Civil Registration System, Danish, 154
Clements, John, 150, 223–24
Clinton, Hillary, 95
clustering illusion, 193
CNN, 84, 88, 90, 204
Coalition for Sensible Action for Ending Mercury Induced Neurological Disorders, see SafeMinds
Coast to Coast (radio show), 90n
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 51
cocaine, 94
coffee, 93
cognitive biases, 15, 193–95
cognitive defects, 121, 235n
cognitive dissonance, 15, 194
cognitive relativism (truthiness), 9
Cohen, Richard, 66
Colbert, Stephen, 9
Colorado, 57, 83
“commonsense” assumptions, 18
Community Health Council, 101
compensation systems, vaccines, 12, 146–48, 175, 178, 179, 180, 220
Condé Nast, 74n
confirmation bias, 194–95
Congress, U.S., 64, 65, 95, 125, 167, 257
drug safety and, 146
swine flu and, 147
vaccine compensation and, 148, 178
Connecticut, 305
conspiracy theories, 237
constipation, 116, 144
of Michelle Cedillo, 183
Consumer Protection Act, 102
Continental Army, 27–29
control studies, 109–10, 153
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 81n
Cornell University, 235n
correlation, causation and, see causation, correlation and
coughing, 274–75, 276, 280–81
cowpox, 31–32
creationism, 197n
“Crimes in the Cowpox Ring” (Little), 35
Crohn’s disease, 103–5
Crystals, 251, 253
Cure Autism Now (CAN), 137, 142, 228, 232, 233
Cure Within, The (Harrington), 268
Curtis, Valerie, 26
Cutter Laboratories (Cutter Incident), 46–47, 49–53, 55, 146
cysteine, 143
cytomegalovirus, 289
dancing cat disease, 120
Daniels, Mitch, 204
Darwin, Charles, 158n
Davis, case study, 286–87
Dawbarns, 115–16
“Deadly Immunity” (Kennedy), 221–27
deafness, 20, 100
death threats, 200, 230
debates, interpretation of facts and, 198–99
Debold, Sam, 187–89
Debold, Vicky, 187–89, 196
decision making, emotions and, 192–93
Deer, Brian, 236, 237, 300, 302
Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), 34, 137, 228, 229, 240, 285
conferences of, 34, 185, 195, 196, 261, 264
Del Rey, Calif., 305
delusional parasitosis, 87
Democrats, 46, 62, 130n, 139n, 197
Demon-Haunted World, The (Sagan), 158
Denmark, 132, 154, 163–64, 167, 230
depression, 93
Descartes, René, 155
DeStefano, Frank, 108–11, 150
Deth, Richard, 216n, 306–7
detoxification, 260
developmental disorders, 12, 20, 73, 75, 76, 112–13, 148, 151, 164, 251, 300
pervasive (PDD), 81, 83, 135
pervasive, not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), 81
developmental disorders (cont.)
in Poling case, 218
Scheflen’s views on, 259
diagnostic creep, autism and, 83–84
Dianetics movement, 15n
diarrhea, 40, 116, 133, 143–44
of Michelle Cedillo, 181, 183
of Sam Debold, 187, 189
Dick, Philip K., 89
diphtheria, 36, 118, 127
diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine, 36, 60–61, 67–74, 123, 245, 283, 306
of Michelle Cedillo, 285
neurological damage and, 67, 128
running out of stockpile of, 147
safety of, 148, 174–75, 177
TV special on, see “DPT: Vaccine Roulette”
Dirty Love (film), 250
Disease Contacts Network, 100–101
disgust response, 26, 195
Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT), 73, 74
Dominican Republic, 19
Donaldson, Sir Liam, 162
double blind tests, 109n
“DPT: Vaccine Roulette” (TV special), 67–73, 128, 147, 174–75, 265, 277
drug companies, see pharmaceutical industry
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), 80, 81, 83, 176
Dublin, 186, 291
E=mc2, 157
Ebert, Roger, 250
Eclectic Medicine movement, 34
ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) machine, 278, 279, 280
Economist, The, 102
Eddy, Mary Baker, 33, 268
Education Department, U.S., 176
Ehrlich, Paul, 36
Einstein, Albert, 11, 156, 157, 158n
Eisenhower, Dwight, 46, 47
elections, U.S.:
of 1976, 65
&n
bsp; of 2000, 204
of 2008, 210
electric waves, 156–57
Eli Lilly, 204, 209
Elliot (patient), 192
emotional disabilities, 76
emotions:
decision making and, 192–93
parenting and, 266
empiricism, 81n
Empty Fortress, The (Bettelheim), 78
Enayati, Albert, 142
encephalopathy, 190, 219
endoscopy, 185–86, 190, 234, 236
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 123, 124, 125, 226
EOHarm, 211–12, 239–43, 245
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), 54
epidemiology, 79, 152
dangers of mercury and, 121
effects of mercury in vaccines and, 150–52
evidence in Cedillo trial and, 295
IOM committee review of, 170–71, 215
MMR reports and, 166–67
Morgellons and, 96n
pitfalls of amateur, 138–40
safety of vaccines and, 170–71
studies of Danish children and, 154, 166
epiglottis, underdeveloped, 276
epinephrine (adrenaline), 93
Erie, Pa., 188–89
Escola, Gladys, 51
ethyl alcohol (ethanol), 122n
ethylmercury, 119, 122–24, 131, 226
half-life of, 151
methylmercury compared with, 122, 128–29, 144
see also thimerosal
Europe, 28, 37, 126
European Union, 102
Evidence of Harm (Kirby), 206–18, 221, 242, 246, 257, 303
title of, 207, 213
evolution, 158, 193, 197n, 307
expectation bias, 194
Extremely Low Birth Rate, 135
F=ma, 156, 157
faith-based metaphysics, 268–69
falsifiability, theory of, 155–56
Faroe Islands, 121, 122
FBI, 200
FDA Modernization Act (1997), 123–26
fecal-oral route of transmission, 39–40
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 8
Fenn, Elizabeth, 27
Festinger, Leon, 15
fever, 69, 99, 181, 182, 183, 218, 245–46, 276
Fineberg, Harvey, 215–17
Fineberg, Kenneth, 148n
Fisher, Barbara Loe, 73–75, 101, 127–28, 149, 188, 196
at AutismOne conference, 14
IOM committee review and, 171–72
lawsuits and, 74n
on pharmaceutical companies, 35
phone tapping and, 199
as Wakefield supporter, 114n
Fisher, Chris, 72–73
Fisher, Meg, 305
Fitness to Practise Panel, 299
Fletcher, Jackie, 101–2
Fletcher, John, 102
Fletcher, Robert, 101
Florey, Howard, 36
Florida Medical Board, 235
flu, 42, 62–66, 181, 271, 276
1918 pandemic of, 62
swine, 63–66, 147
fluoride, in drinking water, 57–60
anti-fluoride activists and, 58, 59
fluorine, 58
flu vaccine, 7, 10, 63–66
“Flu Vaccine” (pamphlet), 92
Fombonne, Eric, 290
food, mercury in, 121, 126
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 72, 123–26, 216n, 226, 284, 288
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) of, 123, 125
vaccine injuries and, 148
Ford, Gerald, 62–63, 65–66
formaldehyde, 265
Fort Dix, N.J., 62
Foster, Vince, 130, 168
Fox News, 258
France, 40n, 88
Francis, Thomas, 43–47, 49–50
fraud, medical, 10, 199
Freud, Sigmund, 79
Freudianism, 268
“Front Line Response to The Vaccine Book” (Bowman), 267
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 84–85, 86
Galileo, 94n, 155
Galileo Gambit, 94n
Gallup poll, 43
gay rights movement, 80
Geier, David, 16–17, 174–77, 209–10, 216n, 217, 221
Geier, Mark, 16–17, 174–77, 216n, 217
Kennedy and, 221
Kirby’s views on, 208, 209–10
on population-based thimerosal studies, 199
testimony in vaccine-related lawsuits and, 17n, 175
gender, case series and, 110
General Medical Council (GMC), 236–37, 299–304, 306
Generation Rescue, 214, 221, 228, 258
Genetic Centers of America, 208
genetics, autism and, 135, 136, 242, 243
Gingrich, Newt, 130
GlaxoSmithKline, 116n
global warming, 307
glutathione, 260
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 307
Goldenberg, Cindy, 182
Goldenberg, Garrett, 182
Golkiewicz, Gary, 180, 284
Good Morning America (TV show), 88, 90, 256, 258, 281
Google, 253–54
Gordon, Jay (Dr. Jay), 258, 265–66, 268, 271
on Larry King show, 257
on measles hospitalization, 272
on vaccine safety, 257
on Wakefield, 304
Gottsdanker, Anne, 50–53
Gottsdanker, Jerry, 50, 52
Gottsdanker, Josephine, 49–53
Gottsdanker, Robert, 49–53
Gottsdanker v. Cutter Laboratories, 50–52, 64, 147
“Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court” (Kirby), 219
grain, mercury in, 121
Grateful Med, 137n–38n
Great Britain:
anti-vaccine movement in, 101
measles in, 19, 99, 100
MMR vaccine in, 99–102, 106, 160–63
pertussis hospitalizations in, 72
pertussis vaccine in, 60–61, 66
Revolutionary War and, 27–29
Great Depression, 222
Green, Arnold, 60
“Green Our Vaccines” rally (2008), 258
Grinker, Roy Richard, 83
Gruenberg, Benjamin, 37
GSH, 143
Guardian, The, 102, 113
Guillain-Barré syndrome, 65
Franklin D. Roosevelt and, 42n
Gupta, Sudhir, 182
Haiti, 19
Haley, Boyd, 216n
Halsey, Neal, 124–25, 129–30, 132, 164
Harkin, Tom, 95
Harper’s, 53–54
Harrington, Anne, 33, 268
Harvard School of Public Health, 56, 172
Harvard University, 33, 134, 142, 200
Hastings, George, 293–95, 307
Hawking, Stephen, 4
Health and Human Services, Department of, U.S., 69, 95, 219, 284
Health Department, British, 104
hearing loss, 3, 5, 144
helplessness, doctors’, 41
hepatitis A, 39–40
hepatitis B, 38, 127
hepatitis B vaccine, 123, 125, 127, 131, 151, 172, 285
herd immunity, 32, 65, 273
herpes, 289
HgP, 143
Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b), 3, 18–19, 271, 306, 308
Hib vaccine, 3, 123, 271, 285
Hildebrand, Andreas, 231–32, 234, 240
Hilleman, Maurice, 131–32
HMO patient records, 149–52
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 45
Hoboken, N.J., 41
Home Defense League, 41
Homeland Security Advisory Council, 204
homosexuality, 80, 107n
hormone therapy, 13, 262
Horton, Richard, 108, 108n–9n, 236
House of Representatives, U.S., 130
Government Reform Committee of, 141, 142
Wellness and Human Ri
ghts Subcommittee of, 168
How We Decide (Lehrer), 192
Hubbard, L. Ron, 15n
Hubbell, Webster, 130
Huffington Post, The, 218, 219, 242–43, 245, 266
Hussein, Saddam, 9
hyperbaric chambers, 34, 261
hyperbaric oxygen therapy, 91
Ibn al-Haytham, 155
“Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children” (Wakefield, et al.), 106–17
Chen-DeStefano evaluation of, 108–11
see also Wakefield, Lancet paper of (1998)
Illinois, 19
immune globulin injections, 271
immune system, 10, 18, 30, 107, 182, 218, 257
Crohn’s disease and, 103
of Michelle Cedillo, 285, 288
weak, 7, 271
Imus, Deirdre, 212
Imus, Don, 212–14, 218
Imus in the Morning (radio show), 212–14, 216n
Independent, The, 101, 112, 116, 189–90
India, 26n
Indiana, 83
IndigoMoms.com, 251–52
Mommy+Me forum on, 251
Indigos, 251, 253
Infantile Autism (Rimland), 82
infantile paralysis, see polio
infectious disease, reemergence of, 18–20, 271–73, 283
“Inferring the Popularity of an Opinion from Its Familiarity” (2007 study), 198
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), 103–8, 111, 113–14, 116–17, 160
information, 18, 270
cocoon of, 198
democratic assessment of, 138
instant accessibility of, 8
ingrafting, 24
Innumeracy (Paulos), 261
inoculation, see vaccines, vaccination
insecticide, 121
Institute for Vaccine Safety, 165, 166
Institute of Medicine (IOM), 149, 170–77, 199–200, 206–7, 209, 213, 215, 216, 217
Immunization Safety Review Committee of, 170–74
insurance industry, 64, 80, 91
International Herald Tribune, 84–85
Internet, 8, 44n, 87, 115–16, 137, 140, 141, 182–83, 198, 308
intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), 182
Iraq, 9, 121, 122
Ireland, 186
irrational escalation, 194
Irvine, Calif., 182
Iversen, Portia, 137, 138, 228
James, Jill, 216n
Japan, 105, 120–21, 122, 277
Jenner, Edward, 31–32
Jenny (TV show), 250
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s Autism Organization (Jenny McCarthy’s Generation Rescue; Jenny McCarthy’s Autism Organization), 258
Jenny McCarthy Show, The (TV show), 250
Jen-X (McCarthy), 250
“Joey, a ‘Mechanical Boy’ ” (Bettelheim), 77
John Birch Society, 210
Johnson, Jane, 184–85, 196, 234, 238, 302
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 209–10, 217
Journal of Child Neurology, 219
Journal of Medical Virology, 104
Journal of the American Medical Association, The, 70, 129
Jung, Carl, 79
junk science, junk scientists, 199, 210
Justice, Awareness and Basic Support (JABS), 101, 102