As a research virologist, Im very skeptical of this panels conclusions. The feds tell us that mercury emissions from power plants must be lowered, they are dangerously high. The feds tell us that pregnant women should not eat tuna fish because it contains dangerous levels of mercury. And yet, the feds will NOT admit that injecting, on average, 25 micrograms per shot (this is thousands of times higher amounts than could be found in tuna or the air) of mercury directly into the bloodstream of infants for the last 30 yrs just might cause health/neurological problems?
Maybe, just maybe, the panels scientific conclusions are flawed, and the other studies showing a link between mercury and autism are correct?
Also, dont trust scientific studies high-lighted in the NYT or WaPo, these are not the best places to obtain factual scientific conclusions.
Actually, that part is a PETA-pushed agenda.
One would think that you, as a research virologist, would know that vaccinations are not injected directly into the child's bloodstream, but rather intramuscularly - almost always in the thigh...
Now if the vaccine isn't responsible for the increase in autism, what is? I gather one theory is that the age of childbearing has gone up in recent decades. Another theory is that in California, where autism has experienced a particular increase, more engineers are marrying other engineers, and the left-brain engineering personality type is associated with autism.
shhh...as a new member you're probably unaware of the conspiracy to bump off scientists in your area. Not a Freeper conspiracy you understand. Check out some of the old threads.
As a research virologist, Im very skeptical of this panels conclusions. The feds tell us that mercury emissions from power plants must be lowered, they are dangerously high. The feds tell us that pregnant women should not eat tuna fish because it contains dangerous levels of mercury. And yet, the feds will NOT admit that injecting, on average, 25 micrograms per shot (this is thousands of times higher amounts than could be found in tuna or the air) of mercury directly into the bloodstream of infants for the last 30 yrs just might cause health/neurological problems? Maybe, just maybe, the panels scientific conclusions are flawed, and the other studies showing a link between mercury and autism are correct?
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Interesting, isn't it, that thimerosal has been in vaccines since the 40s, and yet we only see an increase in autism rates since the 80s? And earlier vaccines contianed much more of the preservative than did later versions.
Also,Denmark discontinued the use of thimerosal in 1992, yet autism rates have continued to climb.
Face it, there is no evidence linking autism to thimerosal.
Thanks for your post. I will stand beside you on this issue.
Where else would you find medical and scientific information for the general public? They usually refer to articles in peer reviewed jourals such as that can be found in the current issues the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, etc. Do you think the general public is prepared for the professional literature typically written by specialists with doctoral degrees? Do you think think the Times and WaPo are part of a cabal with the Institue of Medicine?
But, of course, it HAS to be something besides the DPT shots that caused it..... /sarcasm