More on Vaccines and the Scandal of Thimerosal
March 1st, 2008 — 11:56 amMaybe you are well aware of Thimerosal (sometimes spelt thimerisol, or referred to as Thiomersal outside the US), a chemical preservative used for multi-use vials of vaccine. In which case this may not be new to you. Nonetheless Robert F Kennedy’s information drives home the scandalous lack of real public care by those entrusted with the same in the US over the last few decades.
How little is a life worth? Make your own judgment based on the ‘economic factors’ that evidently drove (drive!) the decisions made by many politicians and scientists, rather than a true duty of care for their fellow humans. Take care who YOU vote for in future if you are actually bothered about your own, and your family’s health and wellbeing…For TOO MANY…it is already TOO LATE:
Robert F Kennedy used the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to some startling records. IF you’ve never read ‘Evidence of Harm’ by David Kirby (more details: http://www.evidenceofharm.com/) then Kennedy’s appraisal will be succinct and shocking for you - especially if you live in the USA and have children who were born during the ‘Thimerosal Years’. Here is just one important passage:
QUOTE:
“…Under pressure from congress, parents and a few of its own panel members, the Institute of Medicine reluctantly convened a second panel to review the findings of the first. In February, the new panel, composed of different scientists, criticized the earlier panel for its lack of transparency and urged the CDC to make its vaccine database available to the public.
So far, though, only two scientists have managed to gain access. Dr.Mark Geier, president of the Genetics Center of America, and his son, David, spent a year battling to obtain the medical records from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a powerful correlation between thimerosal and neurological damage in children. One study, which compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born between 1990 and 1996, found a “very significant relationship” between autism and vaccines. Another study of educational performance found that kids who received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with autism and more than three times as likely to suffer from speech disorders and mental
retardation. Another soon-to-be published study shows that autism rates are in decline following the recent elimination of thimerosal from most vaccines.
As the federal government worked to prevent scientists from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies himself. Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines — the kind of population that scientists typically use as a “control” in experiments — Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three — including one child adopted from outside the Amish community — had received their vaccines…”
And another brief quote:
“…I devoted time to study this issue because I believe that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed. If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine…”
Be sure to read the whole of Robert F Kennedy’s letter, posted in a Google.Groups forum here:
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