THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC:
IS ORGANIZED MEDICINE HIDING THE TRUTH?
Part One
By Kathleen Deoul
(Page: 5 of 14)

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AUTISM AND VACCINES

Many parents believed that the cause was the vaccines the government mandated for young children - and more specifically an additive to those vaccines.

For more than a decade, a debate raged over the role that thimerosal, a preservative used in most vaccines until recently, might or might not have in causing autism. On the one side were parents who believed that the mercury contained in thimerosal was causing neurological damage that resulted in autism.

Their concerns were not baseless.

It has long been known that mercury is a potent neurotoxin. Indeed, the expression "Mad as a Hatter" came from the widespread mercury poisoning among "felters" who made hats during the 18th Century. They commonly used liquid mercury to roll the brims of hats, and after years of exposure suffered a broad range of neurological symptoms including depression, vasomotor disturbance, loss of motor control and shyness.

But it was not just the fact that the vaccines contained mercury that concerned the parents, it was the amount of mercury their children were ingesting.

By the time a child reached the age of two, they would have been given 187.5 micrograms of methylmercury, up to 150 times more than the EPA limit!

Despite the known toxicity of methylmercury, Big Pharma and Organized Medicine insisted that there was no proof of any harm related to vaccination. But Congress was becoming increasingly concerned about the possible autism-mercury link, and Big Pharma and Organized Medicine were feeling the heat. But there was a practical consideration as well. If it turned out that there was a link between thimerosal and autism, vaccine manufacturers could be liable for billions of dollars in damages - something their ravenous appetite for profits would simply not permit! So, to silence the critics, they had the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conduct a study to settle the issue once and for all.

The Autism Epidemic:
Is Organized Medicine Hiding The Truth?
Part One
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