Dear friends,

Below is the link to a very important petition to People Magazine about its Sept. 27, 2004 article on autism entitled "Desperate Measures". The article contains inaccuracies and is misleading. This petition seeks to educate the editors and reporters, asking them to revisit the issue after learning the truth about vaccines and the cause of the autism epidemic.

To view and sign the petition go to: http://www.autismtruth.org

Please consider adding your signature to our petition at http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/petition.htm ---it will eventually go to all members of Congress asking for the complete removal of Thimerosal from all vaccines.

The national on-line "Show Us the Vaccine Data Petition" was announced by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) at an August 23, 2004, meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academies of Sciences in Washington, D.C.

At that meeting, parents of vaccine injured autistic children protested that the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) was being used by federal health officials to cover-up vaccine risks associated with mercury preservatives in vaccines.

That day, the National Vaccine Information Center, as well as SAFEMINDS, National Autism Association, Moms Against Mercury, CoMed, NoMercury.org and Unlocking Autism, all called for full public disclosure of all government-held vaccine risk data in the VSD.

The federally operated VSD electronic database has collected information on vaccination and children's health in cooperation with large Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO's) for more than a decade.

The CDC has conducted its own analysis of the data and published articles, most of which have denied a causal link between vaccines and chronic brain and immune system dysfunction. During the past two years, independent researchers were repeatedly denied access by CDC officials to the publicly funded VSD for the purpose of replicating and validating the CDC's analysis of the data.

The hallmark of good science is replication and the hallmark of good government is transparency. Signing the "Show Us the Vaccine Data" petition will add your voice to the tens of thousands of other citizen voices who know how important it is for government-held vaccine risk information to be open to independent analysis.

For more information on the VSD and vaccine risks, go to this link to read a presentation made by NVIC President, Barbara Loe Fisher, at the August 23 IOM Meeting.

http://www.NVIC.org/Loe_Fisher/blf0804vsd.htm

To read and sign the petition, go to this site: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/896046564

Pass this on to all your lists. Our goal is 100,000 signatures!!

Kathi Williams
National Vaccine Information Center
421 Church St., Suite E
Vienna, Virginia 22180
703-938-DPT3
www.NVIC.org

Think Autism. Think Cure.