March 23, 2007

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD
President
Institute of Medicine
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington DC 20001

Dr. Fineberg:

On March 19, 2007, Vaccine Autoimmune Project published “How Mercury Was Absolved: Creativity, Collusion and Censorship,” by Jeffrey Allen Trelka, M.Ed. For your convenience, if you have not read his work, visit http://www.vaproject.org/trelka/how-mercury-was-absolved-20070319.htm.

Therein Trelka clearly points out fatal flaws in the Madsen study “Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence From Danish Population-Based Data” published by PEDIATRICS in 2003, due to, “changes in participant selection methods, expansion of cohort populations completed mid-study, and changes in diagnostic grouping.” Madsen’s seemingly purposeful pollution of the raw data and bungling of the statistics completely invalidates the paper’s epidemiological findings.

Further, evidence is provided that exposes collusion between the CDC and PEDIATRICS to get Madsen’s misinformation published in the first place.

As would be considered appropriate, Trelka requested the AAP journal publish his powerful critique, but he was rebuked.

We and the public are beginning to see a pattern. Agencies such as yours have worked together to prop up a failed study and have broadly used coordinated misinformation tactics to make claims that the data indicates something it does not.

We urge you to very publicly denounce the Madsen study. As appears to be a periodic practice, please contact PEDIATRICS to “recommend” that they withdraw the study and publish Trelka’s findings.

It is in your best interest to take these actions urgently so that you may appear to be proactively doing what is right. More and more damning information will be widely circulated.

This letter will be distributed worldwide. A letter will be sent to the Editor of PEDIATRICS which will be similarly distributed.

Sincerely,

Barbara Labrecque
President and co-founder
Vaccine Autoimmune Project (VAP)
http://www.vaproject.org