Sunshine and Cigarettes

By Cheryl Bailey

In the wake of Jenny McCarthy’s run away newest book, Louder Than Words, the CDC scrambles to once again set the public at large free of the guilt that toxins such as those found in childhood vaccines could ever cause autism.

According to this latest federal study, the 1,047 children aged seven to ten years, tested in a battery of test designed to measure their language and verbal skills, fine motor coordination and intelligence, show no evidence that the vaccines they received laced with thimerosal had any neurophysiological impact. We are to conclude from this, one, these children has the same amount of mercury as my autistic child did, and too that they have the identical genetic make up. What? We often hear that autism is in the genes, so if that be true, then the tested child must have the gene. But then again, we have not isolated said gene now have we?  The children tested were simply ones which we know were vaccinated. We do not know if they even had a build up of mercury in their systems, that was not part of the test.

From this outcome, showing that mercury has no effect on the brain, one must also conclude that all studies telling individuals that too much sunlight can cause cancer is also flawed. How do we know this? Simple, not everyone that stands in the sun day after day, black topping highways, will get skin cancer. If the sun is what caused skin cancer, then everyone exposed to the same amount of sun as the individuals who work in the sun, would have skin cancer. Just as every child that was vaccinated with mercury laced vaccines would become autistic. But wait, they have isolated some cancer genes in individuals, so does that mean that not everyone has the same genetic structure to make them either immune or accessible to the same diseases? To say such is to imply that not everyone is just like my son. Or your child.  For the CDC to tell us the toxins in vaccines are safe and actually a benefit, but that smoking causes cancer and that the toxins contained in cigarettes are carcinogenic and dangerous, is like telling me the sun will not burn my skin but the moon will. It makes no sense.

Perhaps if the CDC were truly concerned with the connection between vaccines and autism then the CDC would look at just one child’s chelation challenge test and ask themselves, why that child was able to excrete so much mercury years after they  received childhood vaccines. Perhaps then if they ask what mercury did to the body and brain while it took up residence in that child, they might see what I see each day. But that would be like saying that smoking for years and keeping tar and nicotine in your lungs was a bad idea. Oh wait, they do say that. It’s mercury that is harmless. I wonder, can we persuade Winston Salem to add a little mercury to cigarettes and see if that gets the attention of the CDC. I guess I have about as much chance of that happening as I do of getting a moon burn from over exposure to the moons rays.

The CDC says, “This is certainly not the end of the argument. Until researchers truly understand the cause of autism, no hypothesis can be ruled out. And parents who are now getting their children immunized should realize that, with the exception of some formulations of flu vaccine, there is no more than the smallest trace amounts of Thimerosal remaining in any childhood vaccine.” Well that sure puts my mind at ease. We can keep on guessing what causes autism while continuing to shoot up babies and adults with mercury laced flu vaccines, ensuring another generation lost to autism and adults too affected with Alzheimer’s to even care. In the mean time I think I’ll go have a smoke and sit out in the sun a few hours longer today, after all, I only carry

the autism gene, not the cancer one. Or else, by now I would be dead from sunshine and my child would have been born normal. Oh wait, he was. No he couldn’t have been, he has to have the autism gene, it was not mercury. After all 1,047 children tested for mental ability and residual effects of mercury cannot be wrong. It’s the 10,000 Moms out there that think they have regressive mercury induced autistic children that are sending the wrong messages to the general public. Thank God the CDC set the record straight before too many of us heard Jenny McCarthy...just a little louder than the words of the CDC.

Click HERE to see the MSNBC coverage of the CDC statement. 

Cheryl is the Mom of two spectrum boys, one on each end. She is a freelance writer and autism advocate who lives in Amory, MS.

Comments

[Twyla]

I wonder if anyone out here is testing current vaccines to see what a "trace amount" of mercury means? I've heard that mercury is still used in the manufacturing process, but then it is removed and only a "trace amount" is left. Is a "trace" more or less than a "micromolar" (i.e. a concentration of 1/1,000,000) which was found by Baskin et al. to cause damage to cells? Or maybe a "trace" is only a "nanomolar" (1/1,000,000,000) which was found by Parran et al. to disrupt signaling mechanisms essential for neuronal differentiation?

[Do'C]

EDITOR ADDS: I have the link capability enabled, Do'C but it precludes limited HTML on this platform. Seems to be a one or the other proposition. KS

I wanted to provide links to the studies that discuss the impact of maternal smoking on autism risk, but HTML appears to be disabled now. Apologies.

[Do'C]

Oops sorry. My HTML link to the source was apparently stripped. The source of the quote who described herself as a chain smoker, is Jenny McCarthy.

[Kelli Ann Davis]

“And parents who are now getting their children immunized should realize that, with the exception of some formulations of flu vaccine, there is no more than the smallest trace amounts of Thimerosal remaining in any childhood vaccine."

Well...Golly Gee. Whoopee. Let's throw a party! I only have to inject my baby with "trace amounts" of a neurotoxin.

[Do'C]

"As all of you know, being a mother changes you in ways that you never thought you could imagine. I went from chain smoking and eating cheeseburgers to Hepa air filters and eating vegetarian after my son was born."

Chain smoking during pregancy? Does that count as "toxins"?

[Dan Olmsted]

Thanks for raising your voice on this issue, Cheryl. This study has numerous flaws, including the fact that with just over 1,000 kids it's too small to tease out real effects from moise (even though tics did stand out, once again). Your point about genetic variation is crucial. The New York Times today has a story about how response to antidepressants may depend on genetic variation. Why not response to a really god-awful substance, namely mercury? We see that variation -- 1 in 500 -- in Pink's disease, which was triggered by mercury in teething powders and wasn't connected to mercury poisoning until the 1940s.
Glad to have you posting on rescuepost.

[K]

The CDC is the Fox guarding the henhouse. Keep pushing. Keep asking questions. We can not let this story go away.