Rollens Responds to JAMA Report Clearing Mercury Vaccines

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Statement by Rick Rollens, parent of a 17 year old son with autism,

co-founder U. C. M.I.N.D. Institute and member California

Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism.

Rollens Responds to JAMA Report Clearing Mercury Vaccines

Although this study by California's vaccine establishment

clearly sustains the fact that California is in the midst of a growing

autism epidemic and that California's system of reporting

professionally diagnosed cases of full syndrome autism is the gold

standard in the country, the conclusions are flawed and premature,

and does nothing to exonerate vaccines, particularly mercury

containing vaccines, as a cause of California's autism epidemic.

Although the mercury burden in vaccines has been reduced over

the years, we know that even very small amounts of mercury can cause

serious, life altering neurological damage. California's ban on

mercury containing vaccines for pregnant women and children under

three did not take effect until December 2006.

Today, those children born after the ban took effect are

between 4 months old and one year of age. California's developmental

services reporting system DOES NOT include children under the age of

three years old.

It will not be clear what impact California's law banning

mercury in vaccines has had on the rate of new cases of autism until

at least 2009-2010 and later. Historically, the majority of children

with autism enter California's developmental services system between

the ages of 3+ and 9 years old.

If by 2009-2010 there has not been ANY change in the rate of

increase of new cases of autism entering California's developmental

services system, then we can scratch mercury in vaccines off our list

of agents contained in vaccines as a cause, and; then begin

concentrating on the numerous other poisons and toxic agents in

vaccines such as aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG, live viruses, etc., and

most importantly, the interaction of these and other toxic agents

contained in the 34 doses of vaccines children receive from birth to

two years old today.