| In my last article, we discussed the fact that | | | | there's no proof that autism is caused by mercury. |
| vaccines are loaded with toxic heavy metals and | | | | By this, they mean there are no double-blind, |
| other chemicals as well as the fact that they're not | | | | placebo-controlled studies confirming the theory. This |
| studied for long-term side effects or safety and that | | | | is because nobody does long-term double-blind, |
| they are not the public health miracle many people | | | | placebo-controlled studies on vaccines. They just do |
| believe them to be. That is, they're not safe, not | | | | a short study and then give it to every child on the |
| particularly effective and therefore not needed. I | | | | planet. Without a group of children who do not |
| mentioned in that article that vaccines have been | | | | receive vaccines, it's very hard to prove that |
| linked with autism. Now, I'd like to discuss that theory | | | | vaccines cause autism. Luckily, there is one group of |
| a little further. | | | | kids who've been spared this assault-the Amish. The |
| In the early days of allopathic medicine, which is | | | | Amish generally refuse to vaccinate their children. |
| marked by the use of drugs or chemicals to combat | | | | Based on the number of children in their population |
| illness, mercury was a common cure-all. Because of | | | | and the CDC's national averages, we would expect |
| its ability to kill virtually any living thing, mercury was | | | | to find 130 autistic Amish children. What we find, |
| used to kill germs like the one that causes syphilis. | | | | however, is that they only have four autistic kids |
| Their frequent use of "quicksilver" led to these early | | | | amongst them. Of those four, three have been |
| allopathic physicians being labeled "quacks." Because | | | | vaccinated and the other had a large mercury |
| these quacks' treatments were also dangerous to | | | | exposure from a power plant. |
| the point of often being deadly (George Washington | | | | Further, in 2000, a House Committee on Government |
| was killed by his allopathic physician's heroic efforts) | | | | Reform, led by Representative Dan Burton (whose |
| the terms quack and charlatan became synonymous. | | | | grandson developed autism after receiving several |
| And yet, mercury continued to be a common | | | | vaccines) began studying the issue of autism and |
| treatment for bacterial infections until penicillin | | | | vaccines. After almost three years of conducting |
| became available around the end of World War II. | | | | hearings and requesting records, their final report |
| The vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough) was | | | | stated, "Through a Congressional mandate to review |
| developed around 1929. Pertussis is a bacterial | | | | thimerosal content in medicines, the FDA learned that |
| infection, so the vaccine makers decided to use a | | | | childhood vaccines, when given according to the |
| mercury "preservative" that had just been patented | | | | CDC's recommendations exposed over 8,000 children |
| called "thimerosal" to kill the pertussis germs or | | | | a day in the United States to levels of mercury that |
| anything else that may have survived the | | | | exceeded Federal guidelines... Thimerosal used as a |
| manufacturing process. Thimerosal was a brand new | | | | preservative in vaccines is directly related to the |
| drug at the time and had only been used on humans | | | | autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may |
| once in a case of sheer desperation. Here, a doctor | | | | have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not |
| tried using large doses of thimerosal to save several | | | | been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety |
| of his patients who were suffering from meningitis. All | | | | data regarding injected thimerosal, a known |
| of those patients died-many of them shortly after | | | | neurotoxin." |
| receiving their thimerosal treatments. Still, this was | | | | Also in 2000, a secret meeting was held by the CDC, |
| the "safety study" that Eli Lilly used when applying | | | | reported on by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in an article |
| for its patent on the pertussis vaccine. Apparently, | | | | titled "Deadly Immunity." Here, they discussed a large |
| this slipped by the people at the FDA. Many years | | | | study that had been conducted on the CDC's own |
| later, the FDA asked Eli Lilly to produce some safety | | | | database pertaining to this subject. Their conclusion |
| studies on the drug, but Ely Lilly refused saying the | | | | was that thimerosal was the cause of autism and |
| drug had been used for some 30 years at that point | | | | that they needed to bury the information before the |
| and that was proof enough of its safety. The FDA | | | | public found out and began rejecting vaccines |
| apparently agreed, because they dropped the case. | | | | altogether. But rather than destroy all the |
| In the early days of vaccines, thimerosal was only | | | | thimerosal-containing vaccines that had already been |
| used in the shots for diphtheria, pertussis and | | | | produced, they decided to phase thimerosal out over |
| tetanus, later combined into one DPT shot. In those | | | | the next several years. This was done, of course, to |
| early days, only the well-to-do kids received vaccines. | | | | save the billion-dollar drug makers from financial |
| Autism was discovered in 1943 by Dr. Leo Kanner. | | | | losses. |
| These autistic children were always from the | | | | In 2001, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist introduced |
| well-to-do families, which led Dr. Kanner to believe | | | | the Eli Lilly Protection Act, which was inserted as a |
| that these mothers were somehow colder in their | | | | rider on the Homeland Security Bill. This act was |
| child-rearing and that that was the cause of this | | | | meant to protect the main producer of thimerosal |
| disorder. As insurance companies began paying for | | | | (who had also made several large campaign |
| vaccines, autism became evenly distributed amongst | | | | contributions to Senator Frist) from potential lawsuits |
| all classes of children. | | | | regarding the autism debacle. The bill passed but the |
| In the late 1980s and early 1990s, two more shots | | | | rider was later repealed when angry parents who had |
| were added to the vaccine schedule: HiB and hepatitis | | | | children damaged by the drug sued. |
| B. Each of these shots contained thimerosal as a | | | | Thimerosal has now been removed from most (but |
| preservative, thus tripling the child's exposure to | | | | not all) childhood vaccines. It's still in most flu shots |
| mercury and raising the contaminant level far above | | | | and it's in several booster shots given to adolescents. |
| what the EPA says is safe. Even worse, the hepatitis | | | | One recent study suggests that since the removal of |
| B shot was to be given within the child's first 12 | | | | thimerosal from most vaccines, the rate of autism is |
| hours on the planet. In the early 1990s, the CDC | | | | now declining. |
| began receiving reports showing much higher rates of | | | | Don't believe the stories when you hear that this |
| autism. What had been a relatively rare disorder | | | | issue is dead. Mercury and thimerosal did cause the |
| affecting maybe one child in 100,000 was now | | | | autism epidemic. As Dr. Mark Geier, a scientist who |
| affecting one child in every 1,500. In 2002, they | | | | has studied the issue in depth has said, "This is about |
| performed another study and found that autism was | | | | as proven an issue as you're going to see... what is |
| now affecting one in every 150 children. In 2006, | | | | occurring here is a cover-up under the guise of |
| they increased their number again to one in every | | | | protecting the vaccine program." The drug companies |
| 100. In 2007 they adjusted it yet again to one in | | | | are not going to admit that they caused this |
| every 90 children. This dramatic increase in autism | | | | horrendous problem, which will cost us billions of |
| rates corresponded exactly with the increase in | | | | dollars to handle, not to mention the lives of |
| mercury exposure, just as the initial diagnosis | | | | hundreds of thousands of children and their parents. |
| corresponded with the first use of the drug in the | | | | And the government will continue to protect the |
| 1930s. | | | | drug companies because they (the FDA) are the |
| We've known for many years that mercury is toxic | | | | ones who allowed it to happen and they (the CDC) |
| to nerve cells and that it tends to preferentially | | | | are the ones pushing the vaccines on our kids. This |
| accumulate there. It's also been shown that certain | | | | means it's up to us to educate ourselves and put the |
| children lack a particular brain protein that helps to | | | | pieces together. |
| clear mercury from the brain. Autistic children lack this | | | | Please help spread the word about this issue. It's |
| protein and therefore have much more mercury in | | | | finally making its way into the mainstream and people |
| their brains than normal children do. This is the genetic | | | | are waking up, though many still refuse to believe |
| link to autism-an inability to clear mercury from the | | | | the facts that are staring them in the face. Again, |
| tissues. | | | | I've only scratched the surface of this story here. |
| The government and the drug companies claim | | | | |