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Really? Who are all these people, and how can I get in on that money? To date, no US drug manufacturer has been forced to pay out a class-action settlement in a mercury-based lawsuit. So where is this money being made?

I thought the article was excellent- it asked a lot of hard-hitting questions and gave a real-world example of the damage this stuff is causing.

One thing I have to wonder, though, is why so many people are so hot to defend thimerosal. I won't stoop so low as to imply that there's money involved here, but it is a bit odd to me. It's a bit like defending lead paint when there's mounting evidence against it.

What if, just hypothetically, a terrorist organization had infiltrated our water supply and poisoned it with a substance containing 50% mercury by weight, say, if they dumped a ton of thimerosal in a reservoir? What would happen then? Woud the government test the water and decide that since it's a FDA-approved preservative that there's no danger? I seriously doubt it. But that's exactly what we're being asked to believe in the case of thimerosal and vaccines. Cases of autism have risen from 1 in 100,000 in the 1950's to 1 in 166 today. The only real correlation is the increasing incidence of environmental, industrial, and medical mercury.

The only thing 'egregiously bad' in this case is the government's handling of the problem. Instead of honest research we get coverups and back-door, under-the-table deals with drug companies under the cover of 'national security'.

Al Qaeda couldn't have done more damage to us than Merck, Ely Lilly and every other company manufacturing this garbage have already done.

Congratulations. You're fine.

Statistics of one are irrelevant.

I couldn't agree more. Faced with increasing numbers of struggling, distraught and exhausted families, and a growing mountain of evidence against thimerosal and other mercury-laden products, the reaction of the drug companies is...

Admit error?

Remove the mercury?

No, that would be the right thing to do. Instead, we get another drug. Another experimental psychoactive chemical to push on young minds in a desperate attempt to provide temporarily relief without having to admit culpability.

Someone is making a lot of money at our expense.

Excuse me, but I was taught that evolution takes thousands to millions of years to do its work. The precipitous rise in cases of autism, HFA, asperger's syndrome, ADHD et al since the 1930s simply cannot be explained away as a byproduct of evolution. Yes, the human race is constantly evolving, but to postulate that genetic mutations are occurring at a faster rate now than before WW1 also requires that you accept the fact that something must be causing these mutations.

ASDs have risen by 10,000 percent since 1948. Not only that, there are noticeable plateaus and spikes, roughly corresponding with the introduction of new childhood vaccinations. And nearly all of these new shots have used thimerosal-based preservatives, including many manufactured after 1999.

Mercury in any form is one of the most potent neurotoxic elements known to man, and has been known as such for hundreds of years. It's only now that we are pretending otherwise. There is no safe level of mercury. Why are so many people spending so much time defending something so dangerous? By this logic, we should start using lead-based paint and lead pipes again. Oh, that's right; there's a proven connection between lead and neurological damage. And, of course, there's no wealthy corporation making millions of government dollars manufacturing what amounts to a slow-acting nerve agent to inject into our kids.