Dr. Mercola August 06 2009 19,138 views
A new scientific study proves that the mercury-based compound used as vaccine preservative -- known as ‘thimerosal’ -- induces neural damage similar to that seen in autism patients.
According to the study, thimerosal-induced cellular damage caused concentration- and time-dependent mitochondrial damage, reduced oxidative-reduction activity, cellular degeneration, and cell death. Thimerosal at low concentrations induced significant cellular toxicity in human neuronal and fetal cells.
Thimerosal was found to be significantly more toxic than the other metal compounds examined.
I’m always pleased to see another study confirming what vaccine-safety advocates have tried to get across for so long—that the mercury-based preservative thimerosal is seriously bad news and should never be injected. I don’t know how much proof will be required take to get the truth to finally get through, but a mountain of evidence is apparently still not enough for some nay-sayers. This latest study confirms that damage does occur in human neuronal and fetal cells, even at low concentrations. As you’ve likely heard by now, rates of autism in the U.S. have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, rising right along with the increasing number of vaccinations added to the childhood vaccination schedule. This oftentimes debilitating neurological disorder now affects about one in 150 U.S. children, but an article in the Daily Mail two years ago reported the rate of autism in Great Britain could be as high as 1 in 58. Although autism may be apparent soon after birth, most autistic children experience at least several months, or even a year or more of normal development -- followed by regression, defined as loss of function or failure to progress. Typically, by the age of three, at which time the child has received at least 24 of their scheduled vaccinations, symptoms of autism are fully apparent, affecting their communication and social skills, and impairing the child's ability to play, speak and relate to the world.
I’m always pleased to see another study confirming what vaccine-safety advocates have tried to get across for so long—that the mercury-based preservative thimerosal is seriously bad news and should never be injected. I don’t know how much proof will be required take to get the truth to finally get through, but a mountain of evidence is apparently still not enough for some nay-sayers.
This latest study confirms that damage does occur in human neuronal and fetal cells, even at low concentrations.
As you’ve likely heard by now, rates of autism in the U.S. have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, rising right along with the increasing number of vaccinations added to the childhood vaccination schedule.
This oftentimes debilitating neurological disorder now affects about one in 150 U.S. children, but an article in the Daily Mail two years ago reported the rate of autism in Great Britain could be as high as 1 in 58.
Although autism may be apparent soon after birth, most autistic children experience at least several months, or even a year or more of normal development -- followed by regression, defined as loss of function or failure to progress.
Typically, by the age of three, at which time the child has received at least 24 of their scheduled vaccinations, symptoms of autism are fully apparent, affecting their communication and social skills, and impairing the child's ability to play, speak and relate to the world.
The Genetic Catch-All
Many have tried to debunk the autism-vaccine link, oftentimes blaming the disorder on genetic factors, but the connection refuses to go away. And for valid reasons. So far, scientists have been able to link genetic defects to a mere one percent of autism cases. Although the other 99 percent are still unaccounted for, conventional media rarely underscore this fact, focusing instead on the minority link to genetic predisposition. For example, last year the U.S. government concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder." Again, they finally conceded that those with genetic predispositions can develop autism when injected with thimerosal. But industry is still refusing to take any responsibility for having anything to do with the other 99 percent of autism cases, and our health officials are playing along, protecting the interests of industry, not that of your child. And bear in mind, mercury is not the one and only potential danger hiding in vaccines. Aluminum is yet another neurotoxic poison used as an immune-suppressing adjuvant. (For more on that, please see this previous article, which covers that issue in greater detail.) All this lopsided logic serves no one except Big Pharma, and their fingerprints are all over the so-called “evidence” proving that vaccines are safe.
Many have tried to debunk the autism-vaccine link, oftentimes blaming the disorder on genetic factors, but the connection refuses to go away. And for valid reasons.
So far, scientists have been able to link genetic defects to a mere one percent of autism cases. Although the other 99 percent are still unaccounted for, conventional media rarely underscore this fact, focusing instead on the minority link to genetic predisposition.
For example, last year the U.S. government concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder."
Again, they finally conceded that those with genetic predispositions can develop autism when injected with thimerosal. But industry is still refusing to take any responsibility for having anything to do with the other 99 percent of autism cases, and our health officials are playing along, protecting the interests of industry, not that of your child.
And bear in mind, mercury is not the one and only potential danger hiding in vaccines. Aluminum is yet another neurotoxic poison used as an immune-suppressing adjuvant. (For more on that, please see this previous article, which covers that issue in greater detail.)
All this lopsided logic serves no one except Big Pharma, and their fingerprints are all over the so-called “evidence” proving that vaccines are safe.
The Cover-Up of Thimerosal Dangers
Four years ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a must-read Rolling Stone article exposing the truth about the drug industry's greed, and the secret gathering where a plan was hatched to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. According to Kennedy’s account, in June of 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials -- including high-level officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the top vaccine specialists from the World Health Organization (WHO), and representatives from every major vaccine manufacturer -- secretly gathered to discuss the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. Data indicated that the toxic heavy metal appeared to be responsible for a drastic increase in autism and other neurological disorders among children. However, rather than taking every precaution to protect public health, they spent the majority of the next two days plotting how to protect the industry’s bottom line by getting rid of the troubling data. The CDC played their part in the cover-up by: Paying the Institutes of Medicine to produce a new study that would debunk the link between thimerosal and brain disorders Withholding unflattering findings by claiming the original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated Handing its massive database of vaccine records over to a private company, effectively pronouncing it off-limits to researchers and preventing dissemination of the data through the Freedom of Information Act Although thimerosal was eventually removed from the majority of childhood vaccines in 2001, it’s still used in some multi-dose vials, and is present in nearly all seasonal flu vaccines. And, thimerosal-containing vaccines already produced were not recalled, so children most likely continued to receive the tainted vaccines until stocks were depleted.
Four years ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a must-read Rolling Stone article exposing the truth about the drug industry's greed, and the secret gathering where a plan was hatched to cover up the dangers of thimerosal.
According to Kennedy’s account, in June of 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials -- including high-level officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the top vaccine specialists from the World Health Organization (WHO), and representatives from every major vaccine manufacturer -- secretly gathered to discuss the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines.
Data indicated that the toxic heavy metal appeared to be responsible for a drastic increase in autism and other neurological disorders among children.
However, rather than taking every precaution to protect public health, they spent the majority of the next two days plotting how to protect the industry’s bottom line by getting rid of the troubling data.
The CDC played their part in the cover-up by:
Although thimerosal was eventually removed from the majority of childhood vaccines in 2001, it’s still used in some multi-dose vials, and is present in nearly all seasonal flu vaccines.
And, thimerosal-containing vaccines already produced were not recalled, so children most likely continued to receive the tainted vaccines until stocks were depleted.
So, What Do We Know About Thimerosal?
Thimerosal (TMS), which is used in vaccines as a preservative, is 49.6 percent ethylmercury (eHg). It is already an established fact that exposure to mercury can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions -- all similar to traits defining, or associated with autism. The study above just puts yet another nail in the coffin. Because of the ever increasing number of required childhood vaccines, thimerosal has become a major source of mercury in children. Within the first two years of life, a child may already have received a quantity of mercury that clearly exceeds safety guidelines. Genetic predisposition and a number of other environmental factors, such as exposure to other toxins, and diet, are likely major contributing factors that determine whether a child will be able to manage the toxic insult, or develop a neurological disorder like autism.
Thimerosal (TMS), which is used in vaccines as a preservative, is 49.6 percent ethylmercury (eHg). It is already an established fact that exposure to mercury can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions -- all similar to traits defining, or associated with autism.
The study above just puts yet another nail in the coffin.
Because of the ever increasing number of required childhood vaccines, thimerosal has become a major source of mercury in children. Within the first two years of life, a child may already have received a quantity of mercury that clearly exceeds safety guidelines.
Genetic predisposition and a number of other environmental factors, such as exposure to other toxins, and diet, are likely major contributing factors that determine whether a child will be able to manage the toxic insult, or develop a neurological disorder like autism.
Other Issues Compounding the Dangers of Thimerosal
The timing of vaccines is also an important factor. According to Dr. Russell Blaylock, multiple vaccines given close together over-stimulate your brain's immune system and, via the mechanism of "bystander injury," destroy brain cells. He wrote an excellent, in-depth paper on this issue. If you have not already read it, I highly recommend you give it a moment of your time as it is incredibly informative. In it he presents compelling evidence of the link between excessive vaccinations and neurodevelopmental disorders. Your immune system is very complex. Naturally, the immune system of a baby is not the same as that of an adult, as it is not yet fully formed. Both animal and human studies have confirmed that immune reactions to vaccinations differ at different ages. The rate of maturation of the immune system also differs considerably among babies and children, and when combined with variables such as other toxic exposures and diet, there’s no way of foretelling what effect a toxin like thimerosal will cause in ALL children. For example, fluoroaluminum formed in fluoridated drinking water also interferes with immune function and can significantly compound the damage incurred from mercury, as can many insecticides and herbicides used around your home. As for diet, there’s substantial evidence that omega-6 oils are powerful pro-inflammatories and cause immune suppression when consumed in large amounts. These oils include corn, safflower, sunflower, canola, peanut and soybean oils. If you or your child eat a standard American diet, you’re consuming about 50 times more omega-6 fats than you need for health. So it stands to reason that the average child is exposed to a number of substances both in their food and environment that can alter their immunity, hence making them more susceptible to vaccine complications. Unfortunately, the standard childhood vaccination schedule ignores all these variables.
The timing of vaccines is also an important factor. According to Dr. Russell Blaylock, multiple vaccines given close together over-stimulate your brain's immune system and, via the mechanism of "bystander injury," destroy brain cells.
He wrote an excellent, in-depth paper on this issue.
If you have not already read it, I highly recommend you give it a moment of your time as it is incredibly informative. In it he presents compelling evidence of the link between excessive vaccinations and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Your immune system is very complex. Naturally, the immune system of a baby is not the same as that of an adult, as it is not yet fully formed. Both animal and human studies have confirmed that immune reactions to vaccinations differ at different ages.
The rate of maturation of the immune system also differs considerably among babies and children, and when combined with variables such as other toxic exposures and diet, there’s no way of foretelling what effect a toxin like thimerosal will cause in ALL children.
For example, fluoroaluminum formed in fluoridated drinking water also interferes with immune function and can significantly compound the damage incurred from mercury, as can many insecticides and herbicides used around your home.
As for diet, there’s substantial evidence that omega-6 oils are powerful pro-inflammatories and cause immune suppression when consumed in large amounts. These oils include corn, safflower, sunflower, canola, peanut and soybean oils.
If you or your child eat a standard American diet, you’re consuming about 50 times more omega-6 fats than you need for health.
So it stands to reason that the average child is exposed to a number of substances both in their food and environment that can alter their immunity, hence making them more susceptible to vaccine complications.
Unfortunately, the standard childhood vaccination schedule ignores all these variables.
How Many Vaccinations are Too Many?
There seems to be no maximum number of vaccines that a child can be exposed to in sight. Think about it: in 1983, before the autism epidemic began, children received 10 vaccinations before attending school. Today they receive 24 vaccines before the age of 1, and 36 by the time they attend school. And that’s not including the recommended seasonal flu shot each year. Like smoking and lung cancer, there’s enough proof today to call a complete halt to the present excessive vaccine program and ban any level of mercury in vaccines. But just like the case of Big Tobacco, Big Pharma refuses to do what’s right and protect you and your children from unnecessary harm.
There seems to be no maximum number of vaccines that a child can be exposed to in sight. Think about it: in 1983, before the autism epidemic began, children received 10 vaccinations before attending school. Today they receive 24 vaccines before the age of 1, and 36 by the time they attend school. And that’s not including the recommended seasonal flu shot each year.
Like smoking and lung cancer, there’s enough proof today to call a complete halt to the present excessive vaccine program and ban any level of mercury in vaccines.
But just like the case of Big Tobacco, Big Pharma refuses to do what’s right and protect you and your children from unnecessary harm.
More Recent Evidence
There’s yet another recent study confirming the link between low-level mercury poisoning in children and diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Published in the Journal of Neurological Sciences in September 2008, the study was the first prospective, blinded cohort study to examine children diagnosed with an ASD using urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess the physiological effects of mercury toxicity. They also used glutathione analysis to assess the children’s susceptibility to mercury poisoning. Children with severe ASDs had significantly higher levels of mercury intoxication in comparison to participants with mild ASDs. It was also established that glutathione, a key biochemical in your body’s mercury detoxification pathway, was significantly lower in patients diagnosed with an ASD in comparison with the control group. I’d like to point out, though, that although this study shows a relationship between lower glutathione levels and greater severity of autism, mercury is not the only toxin that can affect glutathione levels. There’s a plethora of toxins in your daily environment that contribute to your toxic load, so any number of toxins may be contributing to the problem.
There’s yet another recent study confirming the link between low-level mercury poisoning in children and diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Published in the Journal of Neurological Sciences in September 2008, the study was the first prospective, blinded cohort study to examine children diagnosed with an ASD using urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess the physiological effects of mercury toxicity. They also used glutathione analysis to assess the children’s susceptibility to mercury poisoning.
Children with severe ASDs had significantly higher levels of mercury intoxication in comparison to participants with mild ASDs.
It was also established that glutathione, a key biochemical in your body’s mercury detoxification pathway, was significantly lower in patients diagnosed with an ASD in comparison with the control group.
I’d like to point out, though, that although this study shows a relationship between lower glutathione levels and greater severity of autism, mercury is not the only toxin that can affect glutathione levels. There’s a plethora of toxins in your daily environment that contribute to your toxic load, so any number of toxins may be contributing to the problem.
Additional Resources
As always, I want to remind and encourage you to continue to educate yourself and your family on the issues surrounding vaccinations of all kinds. There are so many problems; no one article can possibly cover them all. For example, if you missed my special report on squalene – yet another dangerous vaccine ingredient – please read it now. You can also search my site as I’ve written countless articles on all aspects of the vaccine issue. I also recommend you familiarize yourself with the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) web site. As a leader for vaccine safety, the NVIC offers information on everything from laws to informed consent to late-breaking vaccine news.
As always, I want to remind and encourage you to continue to educate yourself and your family on the issues surrounding vaccinations of all kinds. There are so many problems; no one article can possibly cover them all.
For example, if you missed my special report on squalene – yet another dangerous vaccine ingredient – please read it now. You can also search my site as I’ve written countless articles on all aspects of the vaccine issue.
I also recommend you familiarize yourself with the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) web site. As a leader for vaccine safety, the NVIC offers information on everything from laws to informed consent to late-breaking vaccine news.
What You Can Do Right Now
The International Vaccine Conference is held about once every FIVE years. It is without question the single best conference on vaccines in the world. For every speaker that is speaking, there are 5-10 others that were not able to speak. It is the best of the best speakers on this topic and I am VERY excited about attending. Washington DC is absolutely delightful in the fall and all the world class museums there are free. Please join me at this event. It is only $195 to attend the conference for the weekend, and the hotel room rates are severely discounted.
If the FDA and the pharmaceutical industries admit that Thimerosol is dangerous, it will open up a flood of lawsuits. I can see the ads on TV now: "Have you or a loved one ever had a vaccine? You could be entitled to compensation. Call 1-800-Sheister for a free consultation." They have to protect their precious profits and simply coming forward with their own studies and stating that they now realize that the product is dangerous could put them out of business. If there were fewer lawsuits (the frivolous ones--not those brought by people who have been legitimately harmed by a pharmaceutical) companies may be more honest and just admit mistakes. A simple, "We didn't know at first it was dangerous. It was FDA approved, but our own studies show links to autism and never damage and therefore we are removing it from all our products" would go a long way in returning this country to one of integrity. Sadly, I don't see it happening in my lifetime.
It already has been removed from most vaccines.
Very true Dr. Randy. In the years to come, I sure hope they will be able to live with themselves and the web of deception they have spun!
Jane, Jane, Jane, even if it has been removed from MOST vaccines, there is still a supply left "on the shelf" that still has thimersol. ONE vaccine to ONE innocent child that causes neurological or cellular damage is ONE too many.
And even one baby dying of whooping cough (like my grandmother's siblings) or measles is one too many.
JANEWHITE -- that's a rather tired line. It's used for every liberty-robbing agenda the government has. Couldn't we turn that around and say "Even one child with autism is too much"? You always seem to be such an apologist for mainstream medicine in many/most of your posts...are you working in the healthcare industry?
Also, as the article stated, Thimerosal is still present in most multi-dose flu shots (you must specifically ask for a single-dose vial to avoid it). And let's not forget that Thimerosal is but one of around a dozen toxic substances in vaccines, which include: Ethylene Glycol, Phenol, Formaldehyde, aluminum, Neomycin, Streptomycin, Gentamicin, Triton-X-100, Polysorbate 80, and squalene...among others.
JANEWHITE -- I forgot to mention in my previous post that there is also a good deal of information circulating regarding ties between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and childhood vaccinations...which throws your whole argument right out the window. Isn't one child's death from a SIDS reaction to a vaccination one death too many?
JANE WHITE
What many people are not talking about is that there was a time when children never died of anything.
We are being made to believe that in countries like India(I cannot speak for africa though) kids were dying of disease and everyone was poor till the white man came along and bought civilization to these countries.
But its just the opposite.
There are many health advocates talking about it but no one is linking it to vaccines.
I remember in India the first cases of disease in kids were seen in the urban population and never in the rural population. I am speaking of the rural population that were on a pristine diet of vegetables and there is a long list of different foods that a mother is supposed to be fed much before she is pregnant and during pregnancy.
The point here is that a newborns diseases are directly linked the nutritiona and diet of the mother.
A healthy baby will never fall sick hence THEY DO NOT NEED VACCINES.
The biggest lie or the biggest deception is when kids started falling sick these companies mades us believe that we need a drug. Instead of finding the root cause of the disease that is nutritional deficiency.
Today mom is already "weak" from chemically abusing her body and living of a "dead" junk diet. How can you expect such a mom to give birth to healthy babies that can naturally fight disease. To make ir worse women are giving birth much later in life and sometimes they are giving birth in a body that has already broken down from abuse(I have seen quite a few women who are diabetic much before they have given birth to a kid)
Vaccination was never the solutions.It was education to the mother. We know from research that 85% of a smokers sperm r damaged. There is also irresponsibility from the male who keeps smoking binge drinking every weekend and living of junk food and we expect them to give birth to healthy babies. What about DNA altering chemicals.They blame genetic disorder & not the chemicals that cause that disorder
Too bad it is illegal to sue those companies for vaccine damage, thanks United states of America. Way to tax vaccines so you then could set up a special court to deem whether or not vaccine damage has occurred. But nope can't sue the companies making them
As a reply to Jane White
When I was 8 , my oldest brother was 4, the youngest was just 6 weeks old.We ; the two oldest; received the vaccination to' protect us' from whooping cough as per push of the doctor. WELL
WE BOTH GOT IT... 2 weeks of fever,cough & vomit all day and all night..
I still remember that horror of an illness.
Guess who the only one was who did not get it? The baby!
I also got measles, and mumps....each time a vaccine was pushed...
No thanks to any more of your 'injection theories'
Just google all the ingredients of most vax and then try to explain how that mixture could induce health?
lest we forget....there can still be less than one microgram of thimerosol in vaccines RIGHT NOW but labeling rules allow it to be left off of the ingredient list...so it is possible that is in all vaccines still.
"The hypothesis that a modifiable risk factor, such as thimerosal exposure, is a major cause of autism offers the hope for prevention through reduced exposure," the authors conclude. "Although our analysis of Department of Developmental Services data shows an increase in autism in California despite the removal of thimerosal from most vaccines, we support the continued quest for the timely discovery of modifiable risk factors for autism and related conditions. Continuing evaluation of the trends in the prevalence of autism for children born in recent years is warranted to confirm our findings."
www.sciencedaily.com/.../080107181551.htm
I want to get to the truth of this matter more than anyone, but I don't think the data is pointing towards thimerosal, at least
Yet even with proof, the FDA and some doctors would rather fight to the death saying it's safe, than admit the studies are right.
Wellness Mom,
I just cancelled a conference in San Diego on Sept 12th, to attend a Liberty March in Washington, DC. Going to create anti-vaccine signs, and do my best to get one of the mainstream media hacks to interview me. Will have my little girl with me, and hope to detail the great health she enjoys WITHOUT A SINGLE VACCINE. Will also have copies of Dr. M's great article from above, as well as other anti-thimerosal literature.
It is time for all of us to take the fight from these pages, to our representatives. Before my time is up, I hope to see evil corporations reigned in, and a man like Dr. Ron Paul dismantling the cancer within our government. For what little it matters, my life will not be complete until The Globalists are banned in civilized countries, and future generations are on guard to the collusion of Royalty, Elites, Banksters and the weak, weak beuracrats they bribe.
unfortunately it is not their deaths they are putting on the line but our children's.
Good luck to you bschec7...there's alot of us that will be cheering you and your precious little girl on!! Let us know how it goes.
It isn't just Children who are injured by vaccines.
My husband was a happy, healthy, mentally sharp 72 year old until one day in 2006.
In the Fall of 2006, he got up one morning and announced he was going to get a flu shot. -- He did.
That afternoon, he said: "I don't feel good" and went to bed. -- For the next three days he only got out of bed to go to the bathroom, and eat a few bites of food.
After he finally got out of bed, he was terribly aggitated. He flew off the handle at everything. --This NOT his usualy personality. -- The agitation increased to anger. He was downright mean. -- Again NOT his usualy personality. -- It took a year before he "settled down" and was more his usual self. -- But -- Meanwhile he had lost about a third of his mental accuity!
I feel that the flu shot was responsible for his decline.
In searching for answers, I found this video made by the University of Calgary. -- It sems to explain why Mercury is such a "poison" to the brain.
www.youtube.com/watch
I have to wonder: Are people who regularly get flu shots more likely to develope Alzheimers?
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Thanks for reminding us about other sources of mercury! Its those ugly grey fillings in the mouths of all of us over a certain age (except for the ones that have them removed, like me!!! ). Remember when the doctors and scientists were claiming that the toxic mercury is 'bound up' in the mix of other metals in the filling, so no matter it comprises 50% of the filling...
And suddenly, no explaination, dentists do not put in the old fillings anymore, for the most part. My dentist (younger guy) told me he 'just wasn't trained on the old fillings, just the new ceramic and composite ones.' Never admitting guilt or wrongdoing, they just phased the mercury fillings out. No addmittance of guilt, just slinking off in silence just like with Thimerosol!!
Early evidence resoundingly says "YES!"
A rather notorious paper presented in 1997 by Hugh Fudenberg suggested a 10-fold greater risk of Alzheimer's from 5 consecutive flu shots vs. 0-2 shots.
Roughly 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's, which is expected to TRIPLE by 2050. 10 million Baby Boomers are expected to develop Alzheimer's.
Early onset Alzheimer's (that is, in people in their 30's and 40's) is on the rise.
Final, one must ask whether it's merely a coincidence that Alzheimer's as a percentage of the elderly population has risen dramatically over the past 20 years concurrent with a corresponding rise in flu shots aggressively marketed to the elderly?
Yes, there is an equal increase in damage along side the increased push for flu shots for the elderly.
www.mercola.com/.../neurological_damage.htm
It does not matter how old anyone is.. vaccinations are a money maker, they research only how much money they can make vs damages they pay out( theyre are still legal battles from the 1976 'non-epidemic). one died from that illness (?) and over 4000 from the vaccination.
Yes, people who get flu shots are more likely to get Alzheimer's.
From an earlier Mercola article:
"Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, one of the world's leading immunogeneticists, states the chances of getting Alzheimer's disease is 10 times higher if an individual has five consecutive shots than if they have one, two or no shots. This is likely due to the thimerosol (a mercury-derived preservative) and aluminum content of the vaccine."
,Does anyone know of a Dentist in or around Eugene, Oregon who can safely remove Amalgam fillings AND do the replacements? I'm hoping to get the ones done by computer while I'm in the office. I have missing teeth that need to be replaced, too. Probably $20,000worth of work.
I'll be starting the work in a year or two, so I have time to do the research
DissentientAmy: 52% of dentists are mercury-free. That means that 48% are still putting mercury fillings in the mouths of people, including small children. The FDA just classified mercury fillings "for safety" and made them Class II - some risk - but asserted that consumers do not need to be warned about any health risks related to them. (The deicision is being appealed by Consumers for Dental Choice, a mercury-free dentistry advocacy group, whose mission is to abolish the use of mercury dental fililngs.) 34 tons of mercury are used in dental fililngs in one year in the US. There are 1000 tons of mercury stored in the heads of living Americans. All of that mercury will eventually end up in the environment.
I replied to Ruth directly about mercury-free dentists in Oregon. For the rest of you, you can contact Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions (DAMS) at:
http://www.amalgam.org/
It can give you the names of mercury-free, mercury-safe dentists in your state. When I decided a decade ago to get my fillings out, this is the organization that I contacted and got five names. Three of them were no longer practicing because of personal health problems due to mercury exposure at work. I went to one of the other two. He has been practicing mercury free for almost 30 years and is a real expert in the use of composite fillings (white fillings), which are "technique sensitive." Many older dentists have tremors and cannot competently place a composite filling.
yes , you are correct to wonder if the swine flu vaccine is safe, the answer is NO- Go to Dr. Andrew Moulden, heard him on coast to coast, on George Noory show(1am to 5 am.) has his BA,MA,MD,PHD.
he is showing the doctors, his imaging of babies,children- before the shots and after.They are shocked to learn It destroys our cells and immune systems. HE HAS PROOF OF WHAT VACCINES DO.-Reason for our children, with autism. Proven fact. he has a DVDout called TOLERANCE LOST- His E-MAIL is drmoulden@brightstepsforward.org. The vaccines after 1960, have become much stronger and they impair blood flow in the miscroscopic vessels throught out the circulatory sstem. causing Autism,ADHD,Sudden Infant Death, symptoms are Gulf War Syndrome, learning disabilities,seizures.(JOHN TRAVOLTA'S SON DIED FROM A SEIZURE, YOU MIGHT RECALL IN THE PAPERS. his baby was fine UNTIL he got the vaccines. A lady called the show, she works for a doctor, and gave her young daughters the series of shots for Gardisal. Now her girls have started to show symptoms. I also found a site about autism and now informed people are fighting the government, VACCINES SHOULD BE OUR CHOICE, NOT THE GOVERNMENT. WHERE DID OUR CONSTUTIONAL RIGHTS GO.THE VACCINES WILL MAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS STERILE. . Do your research, if you value your rights. Go to the HERITAGE FOUNDATION and learn about your consitution. Now our gov. is making vaccines for the swine flu, to be given first to all infants and school children, THEY ARE EXPERIMENTAL-- THEY ARE TOXIC-THEY WILL NOT WORK, AS THIS VIRUS MUTATES, MAKING THE VACCINES USELESS, if you as a parent refuse, they have set up quarantine camps, and will take your children and keep them in the camp. DID YOU KNOW THAT? IT IS IN PLACE, TO START IN SEPT IN ALL SCHOOLS. HAVE WE LOST OUR FREEDOM ALREADY, STAND UP AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. LISTEN TO ABC, 770am- frin 6-8 PM. MARK LEVIN, HE IS A CONSTITUTION LAWYER, HE IS FIGHTING FOR YOU AND ME. DO YOUR RESEARCH
I am the author of a uniquely unchallenged theory of autism. Bernard Rimland of the Autism Research Institute wrote of it "excellent", "fine work"; "Robin P Clarke is one of those rare souls...".
I discovered this theory in 1982, and it was published in 1993, long before any debate about increase let alone what cause of it. I have never had any institutional or commercial affliliation. My 1993 paper did not mention mercury but it did explain why molecules binding to DNA and reducing gene-expression would cause autism. It so happens that mercury does exactly all that.
From my position of independent expertise I can confirm the following.
(1) There was extensive cover-up activity by various actors, not least some outrageously misleading articles in Pediatrics.
(2) The 12-fold (not 60-fold) autism increase DEFINITELY involved a source of mercury.
(3) There is decisively clear evidence from the epidemiology that the increase was NOT caused by thimerosal or by mmr.
(4) There is decisively clear evidence that the autism increase WAS caused entirely by the change to non-gamma-2 dental amalgams in the 1970s.
My original paper can be found at http://cogprints.org/5207. To obtain a copy of my update review in preparation send email to rpc[at]rpcc[dot]info.
P.S. I have not ruled out the possibility that vaccination may contribute to autism causality to some extent in some minority of cases. I think it unlikely but have not studied this question as it looks very unlikely that any clear evidence (rather than parental coincidence-delusions) could be found. The evidence cited in the article above proves nothing about autism causality. We already knew that mercury is a neurotoxin and so on.
I wonder why you would think that mercury in fillings could be causing disease, but not necessarily in vaccines, which are pumped directly into the bloodstream? Are you basing your opinion merely on scientific papers to date?
As for "parental coincidence-delusions", more than 5000 families have filed claims with the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and this doesn't even begin to tap into the overwhelming numbers of parents kicking up a fuss with their pediatricians as to their children suddenly deteriorating within a correspondingly short time of their vaccinations...which now number up to 36 different vaccinations by their toddler years.
Most parents are intimately familiar with their young children's growth, development, and behavior patterns, so I find it rather hard to believe that they are all just imagining things when they witness their children suddenly changing in behavior, personality, and physical capability - sometimes almost overnight.
MikeM--Please email to see my update review for more info and explanation than I can copy out here. I appreciate that thousands of parents believe their child's regression was caused by vaccination. In addition to what my papers say, it has to be borne in mind that (1) Dr Down (of Down's syndrome) described both early and regressive autism back in the Victorian era; (2) regressive autism tends to start at vaccination age anyway, tempting a false inference. But as I say, I do not wish to make any "authoritative" assertion on the possibilities of individual cases, given the seriousness of the matter. Certainly the regulatory authorities are much to blame anyway.
And I did not mean the parents are deluded that their children are regressing. Rather the conviction that because the regression started soon after vaccination, "therefore" they "knew" that hte one must have caused the other. (see my previous reply above).
All good points, RibRob. Please note that I was NOT disbelieving you on the dental amalgam issue, as I think you are correct in this. I was merely wondering why you would believe a causal relationship with the amalgams, but not necessarily the vaccinations (where mercury is not merely packed into dental fillings, but pumped directly into the bloodstream).
I certainly apologize if this was unclear in my previous reply to your post. Please keep up the good work!
My son, who has recovered from the depths of autism, never had an amalgam filling. He never even went to the dentist until after a full year of biomedical interventions to help bring him out of the abyss.
He did, however, have all of his vaccinations during the first 2 years of his life. He did develop gastro issues right after his first Hep B (aluminum offender) and his MMR sunk him.
So, while I agree that your amalgam idea is a contributor, it is NOT in this case.
Lisa P. Do you have amalgams? Did you have them before and during your pregnancy? Here is just one medical journal article showing that mercury in the mouth is distributed throughout the body:
"Mercury from maternal "silver" tooth fillings in sheep and human breast milk. A source of neonatal exposure." Vimy MJ, Hooper DE, King WW, Lorscheider FL. Biol Trace Elem Res. 1997 Feb;56(2):143-52. PMID: 9164660 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
How can they say there is no adverse reaction to mercury, when it is well known that mercury is a most potent neuro-toxin. Couple mercury with a developing body, and you have assignment disaster. Any first year chemistry student is taught the dangers of mercury. Then we have God only knows how many required vaccines, full of mercury, for our children, and it is beginning to creep into adulthood as well. There is a suggestion that so called at risk adults get a flu shot every year. Why is anyone at risk? Oh that is right, we do not cure diseases. Otherwise that useless BIG PHARMA crutch would be USELESS. Not to mention what they are suggesting for the elderly.
We have the CDC creating more potent types of flu, and suddenly coming up with just the right vaccine. Next comes "fright night." They then frighten the public into getting vaccinated, and laugh all the way to the bank. Meanwhile people are more ill than ever, from side effects. Have I got it right? Hitler would love our form of freedom. Lie, after lie, about what ails us and this magic bullet and that. Ethnic cleansing comes to mind, covertly so but effective none the less.
Then you have the tale of Jennie McCarthy,she told the world about how her child was diagnosed with Autism, by a number of so called experts, and then they turned around and said the diagnosis must have been a mistake, because her child is now recovering. The child did not have Autism after all. No matter the independant studies to the contrary, everyone in this deception is full of denial. But look at the common denomenator. VACCINES. We are told the benefits far outweigh the risks. Tell that to the parents of an Austistic child.
Vaccines stunt the development of one's natural immune system. denied of course. Why not teach the benefits of a balanced diet. Good wholesome whole foods, grown organically. Why not teach the truth about GMO, and how there is no benefit. Why not go natural?
Quote: "Vaccines stunt the development of one's natural immune system. denied of course. Why not teach the benefits of a balanced diet. Good wholesome whole foods, grown organically. Why not teach the truth about GMO, and how there is no benefit. Why not go natural? "
Why? Curious7, the answer is simple. **No money in the 'simply obvious'...**
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Thank God that congress passed the mercury lamp bill a few years ago under Bush so that we will not longer have incandescent bulbs everywhere, but even more mercury from light bulbs...every little bit helps to keep us dumber and damaged!!