US News and World Report: Fight the A-M War

[Guest guest]

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/brain-and-

behavior/2008/04/10/fighting-the-autism-vaccine-war.html

Pediatricians were concerned enough about mercury, which is known to

cause neurological damage in developing infant and fetal brains, that

they mobilized to have thimerosal removed from childhood vaccines by

2002. Their concern was not autism but the lunacy of injecting

mercury into little kids through mandated vaccines that together

exceeded mercury safety guidelines designed for adults. But as in all

things vaccine, this move too was contentious. Both the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization

remain unconvinced that thimerosal puts young children at risk.

My reply:

A couple thoughts

Dr. Healy,

It's just too nutty for the media to continue to report that all the

ethylmercury is out of infant and toddler vaccines.

Thimerosal was put back in thanks to a 2005 Flu shot bill sponsored

by Sen. Hillary Clinton. The price tag for the American tax payer was

$200,000,000.00 and meant, that for the first time ever, not only

infants and toddlers were to be Influenza vaccinated, but pregnant

mothers would as well. First time recipients among the very young got

two.

Is it coincidence Ms. Clinton's 2005 bill expressed no preference for

Thimerosal-free jabs? Perhaps not, as we all recall that as first

lady, in 1993 Ms. Clinton, Every Child by Two, and the Children's

Defense Fund pushed for multiple doses of vaccines that contained

Thimerosal.

As the national vaccination rates among infants and toddlers sky-

rocketed, nearly reaching the success of Ms. Clinton's previous

Arkansas campaign, so did cases of a rare neurological disorder

called Autism.

Today, we are coining new terms such as mackeralmercurialism and

fishmonger. What we are missing, of course, is poisoning children

with mercury-laced vaccines is wrong. So why are pediatricians still

doing it, and telling America that they aren't?

It certainly appears as though the Poling's, both medical

professionals, got their hands caught in the cookie jar. The

concession made on a published study of a single child (the author's

own daughter)? And the science is now completely off-limits.

Nutty stuff, indeed.