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Jun. 18th, 2005 02:01 amI'm still assimilating the fact (as I now believe it to be) that for years our government knowingly aided pharmaceutical companies in the poisoning of babies (ie mercury in mandatory pediatric vaccines until 2004).
It's not like mercury (in the preservative molecule thimerosal) is a necessary evil here. It's a preservative that's only needed in multi-dose vials. Single dose vials can be safely used without it -- and are somewhat more expensive to make. However opposition to mercury in vaccines gets lumped with opposition to vaccines.
There's still mercury in non-pediatric vaccines today. We're still shipping pediatric vaccines with mercury around the world. I can't get my head around this.
Vaccine manufacturers are shielded from lawsuits by an act of congress. Bill Frist is trying to get a law passed to shield Eli Lilly (the company that invented thimerosal) from lawsuit as well.
Sean, if you were able to find and read the research pointed to by this article on salon.com (viewing of an ad required to read full article), I'd be very interested in your take on all this.
I've learned not to trust the government, but this honestly exceeds what I would have imagined was possible.
EDIT: Unfortunately, Dr. Mark Geier -- the only researcher to gain access to the CDC's research database of immunization records since it was turned over to a private company -- may be a tainted scientist. He's an expert witness in court cases seeking injury damages from vaccines, and his expertise is in genetics and obstetrics, not neurochemistry. His son is president of MedCon, a medical–legal consulting firm that helps vaccine injury claimants.
That said, the fact that the CDC has done its utmost to prevent this dataset from being studied further tells me that the CDC believes the truth is that mercury in vaccines is harmful. If they honestly believed the truth was that vaccines were safe they would be urgently calling for open, unbiased research in order to quell any fears.
EDIT2: Here's some source data: the Simpsonwood documents. See also selected exerpts therefrom. (Simpsonwood was the meeting referred to in the earlier-linked article, in which CDC scientists presented strong evidence for a thimerosal-autism link in a confidential setting.)
It's not like mercury (in the preservative molecule thimerosal) is a necessary evil here. It's a preservative that's only needed in multi-dose vials. Single dose vials can be safely used without it -- and are somewhat more expensive to make. However opposition to mercury in vaccines gets lumped with opposition to vaccines.
There's still mercury in non-pediatric vaccines today. We're still shipping pediatric vaccines with mercury around the world. I can't get my head around this.
Vaccine manufacturers are shielded from lawsuits by an act of congress. Bill Frist is trying to get a law passed to shield Eli Lilly (the company that invented thimerosal) from lawsuit as well.
Sean, if you were able to find and read the research pointed to by this article on salon.com (viewing of an ad required to read full article), I'd be very interested in your take on all this.
I've learned not to trust the government, but this honestly exceeds what I would have imagined was possible.
EDIT: Unfortunately, Dr. Mark Geier -- the only researcher to gain access to the CDC's research database of immunization records since it was turned over to a private company -- may be a tainted scientist. He's an expert witness in court cases seeking injury damages from vaccines, and his expertise is in genetics and obstetrics, not neurochemistry. His son is president of MedCon, a medical–legal consulting firm that helps vaccine injury claimants.
That said, the fact that the CDC has done its utmost to prevent this dataset from being studied further tells me that the CDC believes the truth is that mercury in vaccines is harmful. If they honestly believed the truth was that vaccines were safe they would be urgently calling for open, unbiased research in order to quell any fears.
EDIT2: Here's some source data: the Simpsonwood documents. See also selected exerpts therefrom. (Simpsonwood was the meeting referred to in the earlier-linked article, in which CDC scientists presented strong evidence for a thimerosal-autism link in a confidential setting.)
