Here's is NIH pass-the-buck response to my question: "Why does NIH allow 24.5 mcg/ml of mercury in H1N1 shots that are being given to pregnant women?":

From NIH:

The NIH is not a regulatory agency; we do not control the use of mercury preservatives in vaccines. This is a responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has sections on its website with questions and answers about mercury in vaccines:

http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/vaccines/QuestionsaboutVaccines/ucm070430.htm

http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/ucm096228.htm

Additional information is available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Website:

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/updates/thimerosal.htm

Information on NIH publications and research can be found by accessing the NIH website www.nih.gov and entering “mercury vaccines” in the search box at the top of the main page.

Thank you for visiting our website.

Edward H. Rau, M.S., R.S., R.H.S.P.
Sanitarian
Environmental Protection Division, ORF
DHHS-National Institutes of Health

FWIW, I asked the CDC the same question and got such a convoluted response that I won't bother posting because I'm still trying to decipher it.

I don't mean to sound like a moron here but from this statement, not being a measurement wizard, could someone do the math and tell me how many ppb 25.5 mcg/mL is? So that I can compare what's in the H1NI vaccine with the epa .002 mg/L or 2 ppb? Please put this in simple english and use the same nomencalture.

From an earlier post:
According to the H1N1 vaccine insert there is 24.5 mcg/mL in each .5 ml dose of the vaccine however each multi-dose vial contains ten, .5 ml doses.

Here is the mercury content in H1N1 vaccine (from the Insert):

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine is supplied as a 0.5 mL preservative-free, single-dose, pre-filled syringe (packaged without needles) and as a 5 mL multi-dose vial containing ten 0.5 mL doses, with thimerosal, a mercury derivative, added as a preservative; each 0.5 mL dose contains 24.5 mcg of mercury.

This is what EPA says is safe:

EPA has set an enforceable regulation for mercury, called a maximum contaminant level (MCL), at 0.002 mg/L or 2 ppb.

Question for any one: Is the nasal spray version of vaccine containing Thimerosol as dangerous as the injected type?

Sometimes I drop the kids off at school come home and read AOA and just am astounded! I mean, ARE YOU JOKING??? The insanity of this campaign on the heels of all of their assurances thimerosal is "safe", is just unbelievable. I would love for mercury to be removed from everywhere as well, but this hypocrisy is almost too much to bear.

John, I don't think your statement was immoderate...if you mean the remark about preying on children. I don't think you're ever immoderate. We're not the only consumer group which accuses the NIMH in particular of this. I know of a famous reform psychiatrist who used to spit on the ground whenever he'd pass NIMH headquarters in Bethesda. In his practice, he'd constantly seen clients after they'd ended up with the very types of drug-induced brain injuries that NIMH researchers try to bury the evidence of at the behest of their pharma sponsors. The revolving employment door between the psychopharmaceutical industry and the NIMH is legendary and the agency serves its masters well. Billions and billions in taxpayer funds have been used over the years to make certain psychoactive drugs look better and safer than they really are so that the public mistakenly gives them to their children, their elderly relatives and themselves. The entire existence of the NIMH is to make psychiatry look like an actual branch of medicine which, if it were, it would have been absorbed into neurology ages ago as one reformist put it.

The research facilities of the NIMH are located at the NIH campus, so surely NIMH researchers-- those responsible for burying evidence of environmental causes of all types of "mental disturbances" for decades-- benefit from a safer environment which the agency has systematically denied to the public.

You could say that the NIMH is the lynchpin of industry's practice of doubling back the blame for all sorts of environmental cognitive or even social-emotional injuries (impact of racism, sexism, violence, war, etc.) to the individuals themselves. The NIMH produces industry's victim-blaming, "science-y sounding" alibis. You could also say that Thomas Insel's job is that of a human cork (don't try to visualize it); he's charged with sitting atop a bottle filled with decades of corruption and agency secrets. To admit to even one tiny aspect of corruption opens the Pandora's box of the rest which would pour out like a putrid daisy chain. So keeping the past out of reach also means continuously perpetuating it.

There are so many examples of ways in which the NIMH wrongly quarantines the burgeoning rates of so many cognitive disorders to victims or victims' families of origin. Autism is just one on the list of many and the agency has had so much practice. For one, the NIMH buried evidence in the 80s that schizophrenia is environmental. Then my favorite example other than autism is how the NIMH buried and ignored mounting evidence of the epidemic of "silent" lead poisoning among inner city youth in the 70s, 80s and 90s because finding the real reason for behavior disturbances among deprived minority children would have gotten in the way of the government funded "Federal Violence Initiatives".

These racist programs were guided by NIMH researchers who wanted to prove that capacity for criminality and violence was linked-- to put it simply-- to being black. They funded spinal taps on inner city toddlers, pumped 10 times the dose of fenfluramine that would be dangerous to an adult into African American children, discussed prophylactically drugging black youth as a "violence prevention" and on and on. One former head of the NIMH-- defrocked NPR radio host Fred Goodwin--compared young inner city men to "monkeys in the jungle who just want to mate and kill" (not very rough quote). He said this just BEFORE the NIMH drafted him to be the country's top psychiatrist.

Finding real causes of behavior just isn't what the NIMH is about. NOT finding real causes keeps them all in busines--in this case, of raking in and forecasting the billions in profits from drugging the increasing number of individuals with autism throughout their lifetimes.

I like the photo, Insel's demented smile goes good with the hair and the mad hatter hat.

According to the H1N1 vaccine insert there is 24.5 mcg/mL in each .5 ml dose of the vaccine however each multi-dose vial contains ten, .5 ml doses.

Here is the mercury content in H1N1 vaccine (from the Insert):

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine is supplied as a 0.5 mL preservative-free, single-dose, pre-filled syringe (packaged without needles) and as a 5 mL multi-dose vial containing ten 0.5 mL doses, with thimerosal, a mercury derivative, added as a preservative; each 0.5 mL dose contains 24.5 mcg of mercury.

This is what EPA says is safe:

EPA has set an enforceable regulation for mercury, called a maximum contaminant level (MCL), at 0.002 mg/L or 2 ppb.

Source:

http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/contaminants/basicinformation/mercury.html

The H1N1 vaccine insert also says:

"Pregnancy Category C: Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with Influenza A

(H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine or AFLURIA. It is also not known whether these vaccines can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproduction capacity. Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine should be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed. "

I emailed the CDC yesterday to confront them on them on why they're pushing this vaccine on pregnant women when it's not known whether it will harm the fetus and says should be given only when clearly needed.

Dr. Insel is then a liar and a cheat. He has continually lied while children continue to be injured by mercury and he thus cheats them, their families, their nation out of a healthy life while taking away the many possibilities that they may have been able to contribute to our country. Instead many will be a financial burden and live a life that was not their destiny.

Scary image Adriana - no better than he deserves. They prey on children.

That is a great picture Adriana.

The contradictory view on Mercury is mind boggling.