[sarasota]

I concur. But you may be surprised by the responses from some FReepers.

[mike182d]

Amen, brother. If people knew half of what was in vaccines, they would never even let the needle come near their child.

[nmh]

WOW!

Thank you for going to the trouble of posting all of this. I will read this when I have more time.

I hope your son fully recovers. Perhaps a lawsuit would teach these people inthe medical community to stop abusing their authority?

[mike182d]

"Simply put, it is not ethical to give a medicine that will kill and maim persons for no demonstrable benefit. Assuaging fears about vulnerability to a potential disease is not a benefit any physician should accept."

Dr. Jeffrey S. Sartin, MD

[mountaineer]

But the explosion we are seeing today is directly linked to the increase in mercury given to our children in the early 90's.

But your son is 3, isn't he, so he would have been conceived and born around 2001, and couldn't have been "given" mercury 10 years ago.

[Servant of the 9]

I have learned that autism is really mercury poisoning. The epidemic we are seeing now is the result of the mercury preservative in vaccines.

Sorry, but mercury is only poisonous if inhaled as a vapor.
If ingested or injected mercury were poisonous everyone who ever got a common mercury/silver amalgam tooth filling would be stricken, and mercury as a preservative has been present in vaccines for 100 years, so it cannot suddenly be responsible for an increase in autism.

Autism involves a sudden growth spurt in the brain, beyond that of normal children. There is no indication that that can be caused by mercury.

Modern man only appeared about 20,000 years ago. There is no evidence that we have stopped evolving. Autism may be an unfortunate result of some of the mutations that are still occurring as our intelligence increases.

So9

[dog breath]

I hope what you write is true, a solution would be nice, but whatever causes it has made my life a lot more difficult for 13 years. Hopefully research like this can prevent the trauma of this disorder from inflicting itself on future generations. Research is good!

[RushCrush]

Ping

[BJClinton]

Welcome to Free Republic

[FormerACLUmember]

The mercury preservative theory of autism is pure junk science.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Good info and good article...except for one thing.
The very first paragraph should have gone into the link between Thimerosal and mercury for the uninformed. Instead it flip flops between the two and the reader is left to research for himself how the two are related. Such a lengthy article should have included this information.

Other than that, a good post for a first-timer. Welcome to FR.

[MortMan]

Bump for later reading

[aruanan]

I have learned that autism is really mercury poisoning.

Not so. You have had your misfortune taken advantage of by opportunists.

[TomB]

Thimerosal Is Not Responsible for Autism

"This non-event shouldn’t come as a surprise. Denmark mandated removal of thimerosal from vaccines in 1992. Even allowing for continued use of thimerosal-containing stocks of vaccine, Danish children were thimerosal-free by 1995. Autism prevalence in Denmark has risen in exactly the same fashion as in the United States and the United Kingdom.

A number of supporters of the thimerosal-autism connection have "corrected" the numbers of the Danish studies, manipulating the numbers in ways that would make Enron accountants blush. They can, through mathematical sleight-of-hand, turn the exponential upward curve into a downward trend, but they have yet to explain why the autism numbers in Denmark keep rising every year if the prevalence is dropping. So, no matter how many possible mechanisms are proposed, no matter how they "massage" the data, the cold, hard facts are these:

-Thimerosal exposure is down.

-Autism numbers have kept rising.

The conclusion should be inescapable."

Except for those who don't want to believe.

[SunkenCiv]

Vaccination-Autism Link Unproven (Junk Science)
Fox News | 4/1/2005 | Steven Milloy
Posted on 04/01/2005 8:37:16 AM PST by Born Conservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1375487/posts