What will the Bolenator NOT defend? Dr. Geier gets a "friend"

[David Brown]

While Stephen Barrett continues to wait for a court to affirm the
obvious by dismissing the suit against him by Doctor's Data, Inc., his
allies in opposing useless, debilitating and/or dangerous “treatments”
for autism have been focused on a new and not-unrelated development:
the suspension of the medical license of Mark Geier, the geneticist-
turned-quack whose “Lupron” therapy is so absurd, heavy-handed and
repellant even the anti-vaccine/ pro-chelation blog Age of Autism
openly condemned it. Strikingly, amid the chorus of cheers (tinted by
questions about why it took so long), no noticeable voice spoke in the
Geiers defense, until now. And, to the direst misfortune of the
Geiers, it's the Bolenator. Yep, they're doomed.

“An attorney friend of mine, Bob Reeves, a mainstay in the mercury in
health care wars, called me last April 28th, 2011 and asked me to look
into some strange occurrences regarding Mark Geier MD and his son
David Geier.  As everyone knows, the Geiers are severe critics of the
fact that Thimerosal (mercury - deadly toxic to humans) has NOT,
despite false claims and misrepresentations from the vaccine industry,
been removed from vaccines.
“Bob asked me, as a Crisis Management Consultant, to analyze the
situation and give him, and the Geiers, my Opinion and make some
Recommendations.  This, below, is the Public Version.  The Private
Version is much grittier.”

So, the Bolenator is openly claiming that the Geiers are his
“clients”. I find it hard to believe even they couldn't do better. I
also would be interested to know whether Mr. Bolen renewed his
business license. Mr. Bolen also considers it “strange” that a
medical board would take action against a doctor for “treating”
developmentally disabled children with a drug whose most well-known
application is the chemical castration of adult sex offenders.

Who are these Geier guys?
“In short, they are the nemesis of the world-wide vaccine industry.
“(1)  Last January 27th, 28th, 29th, 2011 the Geiers, along with their
colleague Lisa Sykes attended, by invitation as an official NGO, the
United Nations Environment Programme - Intergovernmental Negotiating
Committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on Mercury
(INC2).  There, they officially presented, to the shocked
international delegates, convincing evidence that mercury in vaccines,
HAS NOT actually been removed, and represents a serious threat to the
people of Planet Earth.  The Geiers have since been invited to present
again at the next conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in October, 2011.”

Let's see... I just found the INC2 report, and did a search for the
name “Geier”. Gee. NOTHING. For that matter, I didn't get a hit for
Lisa Sykes, either. Perhaps Mr. Bolen could be a little more specific
about where their “contributions” might be recorded...

“(2)  The Geiers have been a mainstay in the State legislative actions
banning Thimerosal in vaccines across the US, and the world. More than
half of the States are involved in Thimerosal ban legislation. 
Already, New York, Delaware, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, California, and
Washington state have legislated those bans.”

Well, what do you know, Iowa DID ban thimerosal. That sneaky
Bolenator, making a fact look like one of his fumaroles! On the other
hand, last Fall, SafeMinds funded an ad campaign warning parents to
ask for thimerosal-free flu vaccines, which was slated to appear in
AMC theaters in cities including Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago,
which would be an odd thing to do if those cities' respective states
had “legislated bans” on thimerosal.

“(3)  The Geiers, through their non-profit corporation CoMeD recently
sued the FDA for, as attorney Bob Reeves say `The failure of the FDA
to follow their own regulations and require testing for the safety of
vaccines.'”

Would that be the suit filed in August 2006, or in December 2008? Not
exactly “recent”, in any event. Also, the latter suit was dismissed
last year, mainly on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing.

“(4)  Press Releases - the Geiers, through their organizations, have
issued Press Releases documenting mercury in vaccine issues.  There
are five of them.  You can read them by clicking on each one:  One,
Two, Three, Four, Five.”

Wow! FIVE whole press releases! How long did THAT take? Too bad
NONE of those links work...

“(5)  Their peer reviewed studies, over a hundred, cover a broad range
of Thimerosal caused issues including two extremely shocking
revelations:  (a)  Thimerosal in vaccines is 300 times more toxic to
the human brain than the bacteria in the vaccines it is designed to
destroy, (b)  there is a Thimerosal substitute that is twenty times
more destructive to bacteria and it has NO affect on the human brain. 
You can find many of these published papers here.”

Let's see, the list includes two publications in Nature in the EARLY
1970s, a 2005 paper in the journal Medical Hypotheses, FAMOUS for NOT
requiring peer review, not less than four submissions to the no less
FAMOUS journal JAPS, and two submissions to Biometals, a journal with
an estimated “impact factor” of 3.172, which is ALMOST one decimal
place behind Nature.

“(6)  Mark Geier MD testifies in Vaccine Court on behalf of brain
damaged children. Article.”

And records from one of the cases he testified say, “It is doubtful
that Dr. Geier fulfills the American Medical Association (AMA)
guidelines for expert witnesses... (His) expertise, training, and
experience is in genetics and obstetrics. He is however a professional
witness in areas for which he has no training, expertise, and
experience.”

“(7)  Both Geiers testified to the IOM on the problems of Thimerosal
in vaccines.  Testimony.”

Awesome! A POWER POINT slide show! Do they have a DVD PLAYER?

“(8)  Both Geiers have been active attempting to force the US Center
for Disease Control (CDC) to make vaccine adverse reaction data
available to the public.  The CDC will NOT let anyone see that data. 
Do you wonder why? Link.”

Well, here's the highlights of the CDC's account: “They were told the
files were not set up for such a merger and that such a merger was not
part of the approved analysis. Nevertheless, the researchers ran a
program which attempted to merge datasets, and the visit ended with a
cancellation of an SAS program that has been running for more than 45
minutes...By attempting to merge data files, the researchers would
have created a more complete medical records on subjects, and if so,
could have increased the risk of a breach of confidentiality... the
external researchers attempted renaming data files with the ".sas"
extension reserved for program files. This would have allowed the
external researchers to remove data files from the RDC, contrary to
the rules of the RDC... In summary, during the first visit the
researchers conducted unapproved analysis on their datasets and on the
second visit attempted to carry out unapproved analyses but did not
complete this attempt. This analysis, had it been completed, could
have increased the risk of a confidentiality breach. Before leaving,
the researchers renamed files for removal which were not allowed to be
removed. Had it gone undetected, this would have constituted a breach
of the rules about confidentiality.”
http://www.casewatch.org/fdawarning/rsch/geier.shtml

Yes, rules, rules, rules, obviously an unfair burden on anyone as
FAMOUS as the Geiers.

“(9)   David Geier was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the
Maryland Commission on Autism, and as such, has significantly effected
the quality of treatment recommendations offered to Autistic children
in the State of Maryland.”
Yes, one “Dr.” David Geier was appointed to the Maryland commission by
the governor. Too bad he didn't have a doctorate. And it appears the
same governor just wrote a letter to David Geier “to advise you that,
effective today, you are no longer a member of the Maryland Commission
on Autism. I regret that you were not willing to withdraw from the
Commission and that this action is therefore necessary.”

“(10)   Mark and David Geier, because of their research into the
question `Why do boys get Autism at a rate higher than girls,' found
that Thimerosal interacts with testosterone, increasing it in
children, causing `precocious puberty."  They then found that the use
of the drug Lupron reduces those effects, and significantly reduces
incidents of violence, and acting-out, in Autistic children, sometimes
almost removing Autistic behavior.”

Yes, how tragic that the Geiers would be persecuted, just for
reporting that a powerful, mood-altering, growth-inhibiting drug makes
boys less “aggressive”! It's as ignorant and reactionary as denouncing
the clitorectomy because it encourages women to be unchaste; or
amputating a hand as punishment for theft because it doesn't stop
repeat offenses!

“(11)  The Geiers set up, with every health insurance company in the
US, pre-approved protocols, using Labcorp testing, for the use of
Lupron, and the payment for that testing and that drug, directly to
the lab and pharmacies on a case-by-case basis.”
Right. They had an agreement with EVERY insurance company. And they
just had to tell insurance companies with a straight face that
autistic boys had “premature puberty” on the basis of criteria like,
“Enjoys scratching where it itches.”
“The Geiers, because of their activities, are a MAJOR thorn in the
side of the vaccine industry.
“Major...”

That's one way of looking at things. Another would be that they are
such an embarrassment to the anti-vaccine movement that it would be
logical to suspect that a vaccine manufacturer is paying them to act
like idiots.

“The Attack...
“On April 27th, 2011, Mark Geier MD got a post-office delivered letter
telling him that a secret hearing had been held by the Maryland Board
of Physicians, and they had decided in that secret meeting (no records
kept) that, suddenly, he was "a danger to the public," and that
"because of that his license was being immediately suspended."  A
further, one hour, hearing was scheduled for May 11th, 2011 where
neither Mark Geier MD, nor his attorney, would be able to examine any
of the State's so-called witnesses (the State refuses to release the
names), nor would they be allowed to produce any witnesses, nor
testimony, of their own.  More, at no time before either of the
hearings, would the  Maryland Board of Physicians tell Mark Geier MD
what he was supposedly accused of.”

“The Maryland Board did, of course, release the information to the
media, including the usual quackbuster nutbags, with one major new
edition not well known to the North American Health Movement - one I
will tell you about below.”

Right! The Board NEVER said what Dr. Geier was accused of! Except
when they handed fifty pages of detailed notes to the public!

“Of course, one of my first questions was `Hasn't the State of
Maryland ever heard of Due Process?"  The answer, after a few weeks of
investigation is `Yes, of course they have, but they are intentionally
ignoring it.'"  
“In short, the State of Maryland Board of Physicians has no case, what-
so-ever, against the Geiers, and certainly without any doubt, there
was no reason for any immediate suspension, nor a suspension of any
kind, of Mark Geier's license to practice medicine.  The charges that
David Geier has been practicing medicine without a license are not
well founded”

I completely agree! The board had NO justification for suspending
Mark Geier's license immediately! Why couldn't they have waited
ANOTHER five years?

“There is an organized scam going on here.  This is an attempt to
discredit the Geiers in a way similar to what was done to Andrew
Wakefield MD in Britain.  There are clear violations of `due
process.'"

Actually, it's even more unjust! Andrew Wakefield made up diagnoses
on bogus criteria AND tried to cover it up! Mark Geier, on the other
hand, pretty well ADMITTED he made up diagnoses on bogus criteria!

So, what really happened?...
“As you can imagine, the Geiers have some critics (understatement of
the year).  Of course, Stephen Barrett has done an extra-nasty piece
on them.  Which means, that Barretts Parrots did the same. But
Barrett, for once, is not the key character in this story, although
some of Barrett's hangers-on make an appearance.  There is one major
player, and a whole host of interesting supporting roles.  So let's
get to the story.”

Wow! The Bolenator has finally run across a practitioner so repugnant
and hapless that he doesn't bother trying to blame everything on
Stephen Barrett! One could almost pity those poor bastards. Except,
of course, for them being the Geiers.

“On August 14th, 2006 a woman named Lisa Randall filed a long,
complicated, Board Complaint  (attached) against Mark Geier MD, using,
as the basis for her complaint, a series of articles about the Geiers
written by another woman named Kathleen Seidel.
"Lisa Randall is the mouthpiece for the multi-million dollar funded
vaccine promotional group Vaccine Safety Working Group.
"Kathleen Seidel is one strange bird - an apparently unemployed
librarian(?) with no visible income, she claims on her blog/website
that brain damage `is a gift' and that physicians, or parents, who
claim otherwise, should be punished (play the Twilight Zone music
here).  She is, to me, a whack-job cyberstalker, who fits right in
with the pseudo-skeptics I describe below. The  Geiers made the
mistake of NOT legally reining her in a long time ago.”

I am curious, what would Bolen's idea of “reigning in” be? Could it
be something like the subpoena filed by Clifford Shoemaker, the
attorney for Lisa Sykes, whom Bolen just reported has significant ties
to the Geiers? Sounds like maybe Shoemaker had a conflict of interest
he didn't report. Perhaps a judge should sanction him. AGAIN.

“A second complaint was filed in 2006 by a doctor who had referred a
patient to Mark Geier MD.  This doctor didn't like the course of the
treatment, but the patient's parents were completely happy then, and
now.”

So, Mr. Bolen, who CLAIMS to be working for the Geiers in a
professional capacity, SAYS that the parents were COMPLETELY happy.
And SURE we should take his word for it!

“A third complaint was, I think, filed by a `plant."  A woman brought
her child into the clinic for evaluation in 2005.  She was sent, with
her child,  to the lab.  She never went.  Three years later (2008)
she's back in the office, claiming she wants to restart.  Mark Geier
MD ordered an ultrasound on the child, which a technician performed. 
Once again, the woman and her child were sent to the lab for tests. 
She went there but would only allow one of the tests.  She was never
heard from again until her name was identified on the third
complaint.”

What the Bolenator seems to be saying that the “only” parent to
complain walked out on the Geiers partway through her first session.
Think carefully, Mr. Bolen: Does that REALLY make your “clients”
sound better?

“These were the only legitimately filed complaints. The first was
filed in 2006, the last in 2008. There are no others on file, and no
others were ever presented to Mark Geier MD.  But, no one knows how
many under-the-table complaints were filed.  I suspect, however, that
there were a steady stream - all filed, or instigated, by vaccine
interests.”

Let's see. Bolen insists that “only” three complaints were filed
against the Geiers, and that one of those was a “plant”. At the same
time, he says that nefarious “vaccine interests” filed many more
complaints, yet made sure none of them were mentioned in any way when
action was taken against the Geiers.

“On the basis of these three complaints the Maryland Board of
Physicians subpoenaed a copy of EVERY lab report ever ordered by Mark
Geier's Maryland clinic, including those ordered by other physicians
in the practice.  From those the board gleaned a very comprehensive
list of Geier's patients, all of which, it seems, they called, fishing
for any unhappy patients.  They found none.  In fact, they found the
opposite.
“In five years of investigation no charges were ever filed.  The Board
representatives made it clear that the so-called charges were
spurious, and that no action would be taken.  And there were no new
complaints - at least public complaints.”

So says Tim Bolen. Who SAYS he is a consultant for the Geiers. And
OF COURSE he doesn't give a single alleged piece of evidence. Why
should he? His client is FAMOUS!!!

So, what changed?
“On January 12, 2011 Joshua F. Scharfstein took over as  the head of
the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.  The employees
of the Maryland Board of Physicians are all completely under his
authority.  Scharfstein is openly, and publicly, a proponent of
mercury in vaccines.  He has, in the past, gone out of his way to act
on behalf of vaccine manufacturers.  His earlier actions show that he,
personally, considers the Geiers to be Public-Enemy-Number-One.  He is
a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a group completely
financed by the vaccine industry.”

Joshua Scharfstein?! GASP!! Who's Joshua Scharfstein??

“Scharfstein, who you will remember, was the number two person at the
FDA, just under Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. Commissioner of Food and
Drugs.  The Scharfstein SCANDAL is still being talked about.  Rumors
float around suggesting that Scharfstein was, in fact, ejected from
his FDA post for repeatedly bungling his assignment, and embarrassing
President Obama...” (Long quote from some guy about mercury amalgams
ommitted.)
I DON'T remember. But here's what I looked up from the Wall Street
Journal: “(One) of two outspoken critics of drugmakers and FDA...
Three FDA watchers called the Health Blog to say they read the (FDA
Commissioner) Coalition’s letter as a manifesto for `ABS' = Anybody
But Sharfstein... Almost every one of the coalition’s 34 member
groups receive funding from the drug and device industry — some get
more than half their budgets from companies.” So! Federal officials
whom the Wall Street Journal criticized for having problematic ties to
businesses the FDA is responsible for regulating spoke in opposition
to Scharfstein's appointment! OBVIOUSLY part of a scheme to install
him as a puppet of Big Pharma!

“So, how DOES the number two guy at the FDA end up in ,what in
comparison to his former position, is a backwater, out-of-the-health-
decision-tree position - as Secretary of the Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene?
“Good question...
“The answer provides only two logical choices:  (1) After
Scharfstein's ejection(?) at FDA he found a MUCH lower level job in
reach of his residence, or (2) Scharfstein's vaccine masters(?)
ordered him to go after the job so as to be in a position to attack
the Geiers (their worst nightmare).”
Umm... WHAT answer? Oh, right, Bolen says he can't tell “everything”
yet, which is what he always seems to be saying. But it's CLEAR that
ONLY a one-time chief of the FDA could make sure that a single state
took action against a single, decidedly Unpopular autism “therapist”,
and there's NO way he would have protested that he would rather remain
a head of a federal agency!

Regardless...
“A series of nothing Board Complaints against Mark Geier MD went
nowhere for three to five years.  Then in late February of 2011, about
six weeks after Scharfstein took office, a secret meeting was held in
the offices of the Maryland Board of Physicians, where, supposedly, a
decision was made "by the Board," to declare an emergency over Mark
Geier MD's medical license.  I say "supposedly" because there does not
appear to be any record of such a meeting. Could it be that the so-
called meeting was just a staff meeting where Scharfstein, or his
delegate, just gave that staff of the Maryland Board of Physicians
their marching orders?”
Here's an answer: NO. Apart from any other considerations, if
somebody DID want to turn an entire agency against Mark Geier, a staff
meeting would be way too LONG.

Let's talk about the players in this game...
“On one side you have the Geiers, and the massive Autism movement
demanding solution to their problems - a group of parents who followed
the rules, took their child to the Pediatrician they trusted who
vaccinated the child, and watched their child's mental functions
disappear - only to be told by that same pediatrician `it wasn't the
vaccines...'"
I'm going to turn down the sarcasm and give a little “friendly”
advice. Nobody in the “autism community” presume to speak as if for
all in a single, unified “autism movement”. None of them are likely
to take kindly to someone saying their child's “mental functions” have
simply “disappeared”. And, most importantly, there is NO quarter of
the “community” in which Mark Geier's “therapy” has NOT been harshly
criticized. So, if you are entertaining any aspirations of inserting
yourself as someone of significance at least to the “vaccine blamer”
niche of the autism community, you would be very wise to be more
discrete.

“On the other side you have the vaccine industry teetering on the edge
of collapse, looking, desperately, for a way to keep the profits
flowing.  They may make a lot of money, but their costs and overhead
are massive.  Can you, for instance, imagine what it costs, just in
the US, to lobby 50 State legislatures constantly?  Then there is the
massive numbers of lobbyists they need to employ just for the Federal
Congress.  More, flying all those Pediatricians to conferences in
Hawaii, Paris, etc. isn't cheap.  Then there all those ex-cheerleaders
(called Detail Men) they need to keep trained to arrange birthday
parties for doctor's children.  Of course, even though their
manufacturing costs are low, they still have to pay to have those
vaccines made in those, un-inspected by the FDA (or anyone), putrid
hovels in China and the third World.”
Yes, all that WOULD be expensive. That's why nothing of the sort
would be done for vaccines. Viagra, maybe...

“But, more important for this story, there are the vaccine industry
kiss-ups.  Those that. perhaps, owe their very careers to the drug/
vaccine industry.  I will list them:
“(1)  Of course, Joshua F. Scharfstein.  His employment history, shown
on the Maryland web page, is nothing but a series of relationships
with the vaccine moguls.  For instance, look at these jobs - ALL
vaccine promotional:
"Primary Care Pediatric Resident and Pediatrician, Latino Clinic,
Boston Medical Center, 1996-2001. Primary Care Pediatric Resident,
Dimock Street Community Health Center, 1997-99. Co-founder and Co-
director, Docs4Kids Project, 1997-99. Part-time fellow, Massachusetts
Department of Public Health, 1999-2000. Researcher and writer, World
Health Organization, 2000. Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics,
2001-. Fast track physician, Emergency Department, Children's National
Medical Center, 2002-05. Adjuvant staff, Mount Washington Pediatric
Hospital, 2002-05. Board of Directors, Docsfortots, 2003-05; Reach out
and Read, 2005. Member, Board on Population Health and Public Health
Practice, Institute of Medicine, 2007-09."

Of course! Just look at those names! Latino Clinic! Dimrock Street
Community Health Center!! REACH OUT AND READ!!! Obviously ALL fronts
for Big Pharma! After all, how could Big Pharma sell stuff to poor
Latino children when they're illiterate and dead??

“(2)  Lisa Randall is the mouthpiece for the multi-million dollar
funded vaccine promotional group Vaccine Safety Working Group.  Need I
say more?  It is obvious how she fits into this story.  You can find
her commenting on Kathleen Seidel's blog.”

Need Bolen say more? Did he say ANYTHING??

“(3)  Kathleen Seidel.  I cringe when I see how much damage this one
has done - and I never noticed her, for she focuses almost exclusively
on the Geiers, cyberstalking them though the internet.  It is obvious
how she fits into this story.”

Let's see. Kathleen Seidel is widely regarded as the “founder” of the
“neurodiversity” movement. She has written about many subjects and
issues, and has managed large collections of “links” to support
others. And, by her own account, she qualifies as autistic. And Tim
Bolen's summary is that he “never noticed her”, that “she focuses
almost exclusively on the Geiers”, and that she is a “stalker”.

“(4)  The Skeptics (pseudo-skeptics).  As individuals they fall into
two groups:  The leadership, which sometimes reveals their real
identities, and the followers, who virtually never do.  All of them
maintain multiple internet identities with which to carry on
conversations, backing themselves up, as it were, in arguments with
opponents.  Although not the brightest people in the world, someone
has trained them in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, and
they currently control Wikipedia health care articles.” (Whining about
defamation and search results deleted.)

Let's go over a few things. First, SEOs are a LEGAL service. Second,
an SEO is rather redundant against someone whom virtually nobody will
speak in FAVOR of. Third, opposition to the chemical castration of
children (autistic or otherwise) is NOT something that normally takes
a great deal of effort to assemble.

“The efforts of the Skeptics, including Kathleen Seidel, are by
definition, using defamation as a tool against the Geiers.  The Courts
have held that anyone who has editorial control over comments, and
does nothing to control defamation, is just as liable as the author of
the words.  To me, Seidel's, and the other's, blog comments are a
cesspool of defamatory comments designed to bring harm, including acts
of violence, to the Geiers.”

I can agree with Mr. Bolen on one thing: Reading about the Geiers
DOES have the potential to incite violence. For example, I myself
have debated hunting Mark Geier down and whacking him with my rock
hammer. (Con: long and REALLY expensive bus ride...)

Unveiling the plot...
“For years the usual quackbusters whined about the Geiers' activities
- but their efforts went nowhere.  The Geiers just went on producing
excellent work.  Even the formal board complaints did nothing.
“Then the Geiers got invited to speak at  the United Nations
conference on mercury I described above.  There, at that conference,
were the top scientific advisors to 150 nations of the world.  After
the Geiers spoke all hell broke loose for the vaccine industry.  Whole
countries are talking about banning Thimerosal vaccines, and those
same countries found out they were lied to. More, the vaccine industry
could see the handwriting on the wall over vaccines since the US State
Department team at the conference declared, at the conference, that
the US would lead the way in the removal of mercury.”

Of course! Because criticizing an obsolete preservative in an
obsolete form of vaccine is SO much worse than chemically castrating
children...

“Then Joshua Scharfstein came on the scene and, suddenly, Mark Geier
MD becomes `a danger to the public.'
“I don't believe in coincidence.
“Then, of course, comes the media campaign - headed by the usual
suspects in the `Skeptic' organization.”

Aren't you getting things turned around, Mr. Bolen? Mark Geier and his
“cure” have been denounced in the “blogosphere” about as long as they
have been in circulation, and in mainstream media since no later than
2008. The people reporting on the action against him are the same
people who have called for it for months or years. And let's review
some of the highlights. Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos has
summarily described the “Lupron protocol” as “junk science”. Simon
Baron Cohen, a major researcher whose ideas on autism as “extreme
male” behavior may have influenced Geier, has stated that the protocol
“fills me with horror.” Andrew Hall Cutler, an advocate of chelation,
has said, “The theory that testosterone ties up mercury (in the body)
and keeps it there is insane.” And, in perhaps the unkindest cut of
all, AoA editor Dan Olmsted recounted being leery of treating his
daughter with Lupron for reasons unrelated to autism: “He offered me
Lupron straight away. I asked, `What will Lupron do to her seizure
disorder?' He had no idea. In fact, he kept saying, `The social stigma
of a girl getting her period in third grade...'... He wanted her on
Lupron but couldn't give me any facts as to how it would affect her
overall health, beside her breasts disappearing and her underarm hair
falling out. I declined the Lupron out of fear for what it would do to
Mia's seizures.” In summary, Mr. Bolen, perhaps you should think
carefully before getting yourself any deeper into the Geiers' amazing
mess.

“Which brings us to today...
“What happens next?
“The Geiers' legal team is alive and well.  They have made demands for
information and are pointing out that the State must do certain things
immediately.  This week the State MUST deliver all information
including the names of their so-called expert reviewers.  Then the fun
will began.
My Recommendations to the Geiers and their legal team?
“I'm not telling you any of that.  You're just going to have to guess
- and, of course, keep reading my newsletter articles to see what's
about to happen.”

Here's a few my VERY educated guesses: The Geiers will try to deny
and delay. The Maryland Board will continue its investigation, and
new ones will arise in other states. Even before direct action is
taken, indeed even if none is, their funds will be drained, and the
commercial enterprise based on their Lupron protocol will dwindle or
completely collapse. Those in anti-vaccine/ autism biomed circles who
have not already denounced or deserted them will do so in increasing
numbers, haste and forcefulness. And Tim Bolen will be ignored by
everyone of any importance in this matter, ESPECIALLY the Geiers and
their counsel. They have troubles enough as it is.