Dixon Man on Crusade for Justice

By Timothy Van Zant

Sunday, December 15, 2002

John Adams, the second president of the United States, once observed that “facts are stubborn things,” a proposition with which Dixon resident Dr. Mohammed Al-Bayati, whose pioneering research of the toxicological roots of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has received international attention, is in agreement. “When I’m researching something, I only want to discover the facts,” he noted. Dr. Al-Bayati’s dedication has led to his involvement with a Florida criminal case appeal, and to some startling discoveries about Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

In November of 1997, Alan Yurko, a two and a half month old baby, died just three days after being admitted to Princeton Hospital in Florida. His father, Alan R. Yurko, was subsequently arrested, tried, and convicted by a jury in 1999, sentenced to spend his life plus ten years in prison. During the course of the appeal process, which is still underway, Dr. Al-Bayati became involved, utilizing his toxicological and pathological expertise to examine the evidence upon which Yurko’s conviction was based, and what Al-Bayati discovered horrified him.

“They said they had examined the baby’s heart, but they didn’t, because it had already been harvested for donation; they did not review the child’s medical history, nor did they analyze the effects of the vaccines and medications that were in the baby’s system,”he observed.

“They sent an innocent man to jail,” he concluded. Dr. Al-Bayati is particularly sensitive to misuse of power. He fled Iraq not long after Saddam Hussein seized power, and several members of his family have been murdered by thugs of the regime in Baghdad. Dr. Al-Bayati began his investigation by pursuing what he contends the medical examiner failed to do, determining the cause of death. His inquires were based upon a scientific method as differential diagnosis. This process, simply put, seeks to eliminate all other possible causes of a certain reaction, by taking all the available evidence and known facts and going through a process of elimination.

Dr. Al-Bayati determined that the baby’s death was vaccine-and-medication induced; the reaction of the child’s system to an overload of drugs and antibiotics. Of equal interest were the implications his discovery, the product of approximately 250 hours of research, has for other SBS or SIDS cases. “No one has looked at the toxicological effects that medications may have on a segment of the population, and many cases labeled SIDS or SBS are probably something else,” he said.

Citing the Yurko case as an example, Dr. Al-Bayati noted how the child have been given high doses of sodium bicarbonate and heparin, which cause cardiac arrest and internal bleeding and produce symptoms similar to SBS. Dr. Al-Bayati was promoted to explore the toxicological avenue not only because that in his area of expertise, but also because the child did not develop SBS-like symptoms until after he was admitted to the hospital, and was thus separated from its parents.

Since Dr. Al-Bayati’s discovery of the toxicological causes of baby Yurko’s death, literally hundreds of health-care professionals have enrolled in the effort to free Alan Yurko, and are also exploring this previously overlooked source of both SBS and SIDS. Dr. Al-Bayati in company with many other professionals, is also involved in an effort to have the laws governing the rules of evidence changed to make differential diagnosis the standard in all court proceedings. “It is a process of elimination which only deals with facts and can’t be manipulated,” he stated.

Dr. Al-Bayati’s crusade for justice and science has made national news, most recently with the publication of his report by Nicholas Regush of ABC News on the Redflagsweekly.com website.From the January 2003 Idaho Observer:

Vaccines and medicine -- not father -- caused Florida baby's death, toxicologist concludes ORLANDO, Florida -- Mohammed Al-Bayati, Ph.D., recently published a report that identifies the cause of the injuries that led to the 1997 death of Baby Alan. Dr. Al-Bayati's findings support the beliefs of vaccine damage experts and activists from all over the world; that Baby Alan died of complications resulting from the administration contraindicated vaccines -- not from being shaken to death by his father.

“I identified the causes of injuries in this case. Mr. Yurko is innocent,” Dr. al-Bayati stated. Dr. Al-Bayati, a toxicologist and pathologist, enjoys international acclaim for his ground-breaking research into the toxicological roots of AIDS. Now he has become the latest member in a growing body of scientists and lay people who are part of the Yurko Project.

The baby's father Alan Yurko was sentenced to life plus ten years in prison for shaking his baby to death. Yurko's conviction and sentence is symptomatic of a national trend that has, in potentially hundreds of cases, wrongfully imprisoned parents for shaken baby syndrome (SBS) as a cover for vaccine damage.

One day in Nov., 1997, Baby Alan, born in a weakened state after a difficult pregnancy just two and one half months before, stopped breathing. Yurko rushed his son to the hospital where he died a few hours later.

Dr. Al-Bayati found that Baby Alan had been given high doses of sodium bicarbonate and heparin, which caused cardiac arrest and internal bleeding -- symptoms similar to SBS. Dr. Al-Bayati explored the toxicological aspects of the unfortunate baby's case because the child did not develop SBS-like symptoms until after he was admitted to the hospital.

Aside from Dr. Al-Bayati's thorough investigation into the cause of Baby Alan's death being consistent with the facts of the case that prove Yurko's innocence, his inquiries bring to light certain discrepancies that indicate prosecutorial misconduct. “They said they had examined the baby's heart, but they didn't, because it had already been harvested for donation; they did not review the child's medical history, nor did they analyze the effects of the vaccines and medications that were in the baby's system,” he observed.

“They sent an innocent man to jail,” commented Dr. Al-Bayati after he had conducted an investigation into the baby's death -- something Dr. Al-Bayati claims was not done by the attending medical examiner.

Dr. Al-Bayati determined that the baby's death was vaccine-and-medication induced; the reaction of the child's system to an overload of drugs and antibiotics.

The implications of the Yurko case are huge. “No one has looked at the toxicological effects that medications may have on a segment of the population, and many cases labeled SIDS or SBS are probably something else,” Dr. Al-Bayati said.

The Yurko project filed a 100-page appeal in the Florida supreme Court in March, 2002. The hearing is expected to be heard sometime this year. The Yurko case is getting a boost by the recent release of three other Florida men who, it was determined, were wrongfully imprisoned for SBS. Prosecutorial misconduct was a key component of those convictions as well.

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Toxicologist and Pathologist
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