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A while back I wrote an article about vaccines and
autism and the statistics that indicated a very strong link of autism, ADD,
and ADHD with thimerosal (the mercury based preservative in vaccines).
Let’s add a little update to that.
This topic has gained the attention of Rick Santorum,
Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, in which he states he believes it is
fair to have an investigation to have the Federal Government answer some
safety issues to our public. Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr., noted to be a “tree hugger”, is heavy into
conservation. In the
recent summer double issue of Rolling Stones magazine, Mr. Kennedy presses
on and suggests that this is one of the monster cover-ups against humanity.
He so states, “When a study revealed that mercury in childhood
vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed
to conceal the data – and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for
their role in the epidemic.”
He was also on the Imus in the Morning Show on MSNBC.
Imus and Senator Santorum commented that Dr. Tim Scott and Chuck
Gibson of ABC News played down the cover up of thimerosal tremendously.
They stated they would give their own kids the same amount of
vaccinations today but they refused to mention thimerosal-free vaccinations.
Please note this – Even for scientists and doctors
accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were
frightening. “You can play
with this all you want,” Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American
Academy of Pediatrics, told the group.
The results “are statistically significant.”
Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the
University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of
the meeting’s first day, was even more alarmed.
“My gut feeling?” he said. “Forgive
this personal comment – I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing
vaccine until we know better what is going on.”
Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety of the CDC,
expressed relief that “given the sensitivity of the information, we have
been able to keep it out of the hands of, let’s say, less responsible
hands.” Dr. John Clements,
vaccines adviser at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the
study “should not have been done at all” and warned that the results
“will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of
this group. The research
results have to be handled.”
Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase
thimerosal out of injections given to American infants, but they continued
to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year.
The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for
export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using
the preservative in some American vaccines, including several pediatric flu
shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to eleven-year-olds.
There is a lot of fear going on about plaintiff
lawsuits. The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers
in Washington. Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the
pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from
liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured
children. On five separate
occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government’s vaccine-related
documents and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas.
In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the
“Eli Lilly Protection Act” into a homeland security bill, the company
contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on
bio-terrorism. “The lawsuits
are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business
and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorist,”
says Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist.
The fear, of course, is that it appears we are dumping
our mercury-laced vaccines on foreign countries and starting to pull mercury
out of our new vaccines. Finally,
the Rolling Stones article so states that their failure to clear up
thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt them.
“This epidemic may have been prevented,” said
Representative Dan Burton, “had the FDA not been asleep at the switch.”
Chiropractically Yours,
Robert R. Zinser, D.C., C.C.S.P., P.C.
Kickapoo/Edwards – (309) 691-6920
Peoria (309) 688-7817
drzinser@sbcglobal.net
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