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.
The mercury reacts that way in very few people. Fewer people than would die if there were no vaccinations. And while the rise in autism is significant, it really isn’t that large.
The normal shuffle of progress: two steps forward, one step back. It also isn’t used in every vaccine, nor has it ever been. The real problem with vaccines is autoimmunity. Granted, that is compounded by things like hand-sanitizer also contribute to this.
Now go drink some spoiled milk and give your immune system something to do!
It’s not a vaccine/no vaccine question. My understanding is that there are mercury and no mercury flu shots, for example.
Further, the amount of mercury largely exceeds the rate which is considered normal.
“Since that earlier correction, however, it has become clear from responses to the article that the forty-percent number, while accurate, is misleading. It measures the total mercury load an infant received from vaccines during the first six months, calculates the daily average received based on average body weight, and then compares that number to the EPA daily limit. But infants did not receive the vaccines as a ?daily average? ? they received massive doses on a single day, through multiple shots. As the story states, these single-day doses exceeded the EPA limit by as much as 99 times. Based on the misunderstanding, and to avoid further confusion, we have amended the story to eliminate the forty-percent figure.”
And would you really call increase not large?
“Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants – in one case, within hours of birth – the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.”
Ill have to look into that. I know for a fact that most flu shot vaccines have excessive levels of mercury in them.
Ive also heard that the number of shots given to young American children, off the top of my hat, is close to 35 compared to just a few 20 or 30 years ago.
The problem is that you need the mercury for certain types of vaccines, the vaccines that are better at both preventing future disease and have fewer autoimmune side-effects.
Now, I’m not totally defending the mercury, I do think it needs to go. But I think it can only be replaced once we have a better alternative and we don’t have enough knowledge of what is going on to do that.
Now, this creates a nasty cycle here, because we’re pretty close to actually being able to make viable alternatives. However, that would require a huge change to Big Pharma’s infrastructure and you’d best believe that they will fight that one all the way.
Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines – and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children’s vaccines twenty years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.
Actually, I’m wondering about how the situation has evolved since 2003? I think there has been some type of reaction but also that there are more shots. So what is the end result? Maybe I will find someething if I look into it.
Oh yeah. The Big Pharm is totally morally corrupt, no one is arguing that.
And I do think a ban is a good idea. Though I do know that there are several vaccinations that you wouldn’t be able to recieve should that happen. Always a trade-off. I’d need to look into it to see whether it would be worth it, but those countries seem to be doing fine, so I’ll wager it isn’t too tragic.
Besides, aren’t people always babbling about how autism is the next stage in human evolution
