Tony Bateson! Universities are generally averse to studying mercury unless there is a grant. And grants are generally not given when it comes to mercury. I found that out when a Berkeley student wanted to study mercury. He was advised that thudying mercury is a dead end

Willie,

It seems to me there are two fundamental questions that need to be raised about the potential introduction of any new technology relative to health impacts: 1) if the new technology has any potential health benefits, what is the evidence, and 2) what are the potential costs (health, financial, and otherwise) of the new technology. Then, armed with this information, one can do a benefit/cost analysis to help decide whether the technology should be allowed to enter public use, and under what regulatory conditions. EMF, for example, has commercial (and other) benefits, but in the power and RF frequencies has essentially no health benefits. It certainly has substantial potential costs (especially health) in those frequencies.

For vaccines, as far as I can see from some biomedical literature searches, the NET health benefits have not been demonstrated. Antibodies against the virus of interest have been generated, at least for the short term, and symptoms of relevant infectious diseases have been suppressed, but these again are short term effects. The long term effects of many/most vaccines have never been ascertained. There is some evidence that the childhood infectious diseases confer some protection against chronic diseases in later life, but the evidence here is by no means conclusive. There is also some evidence, as shown in my book, that vaccines can contribute to chronic diseases, although the evidence is mixed. And, certainly, even the intermediate term effects of vaccine combinations have not been ascertained, much less the long term effects.

The present approach to approving vaccines seems to follow the corporate business model of emphasizing short term quarterly profits at the expense of long term financial health. Public policy relative to health should be to maximize health over the life span and maximize longevity; it is by no means clear that vaccines are optimal to meet this objective; they may, in fact, be an impediment.

For example, the MMR vaccine was introduced in the early 70s. If we assume that the initial symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease and other similar later life chronic diseases may occur in one's 60s and 70s, then we would have to wait until about 2030 or later to ascertain whether there are serious long term effects from the MMR vaccine alone.

But, even in that specific case, results would be insufficient. There are other vaccines on the recommended schedule as well, and children who received ALL those vaccines would have to be followed for many decades before serious long term effects of the COMBINATION could be identified. Additionally, if synergistic effects are considered with e.g. EMF, the starting point would have to be the period of major introduction of EMF-based devices, such as cell phones and WiFi, which occurred about two decades ago, or less. In that case, more credible evidence of safety would require testing to 2050, or even beyond.

So, we really don't have definitive evidence of vaccine NET benefits at this time, and it is unlikely that we would get such evidence until mid-century, if indeed such evidence exists. And, if Thompson's allegations are correct, as well as research results contained in many credible peer-reviewed studies posted on AoA, there are substantial potential health and financial costs involved with the MMR and other vaccines. In sum, there is no evidence at this time of a high benefit/cost ratio for vaccines, and there is the potential for a low (or even very low) benefit/cost ratio. In the face of such uncertainty, the Precautionary Principle should be operative: no vaccines until proven beneficial. In today's climate, that would be unacceptable, but a reasonable compromise would be a return to the vaccine schedule operable when I was young, where a handful of vaccines was given one at a time.

@ Willie

"Yet and still that does not remove the essential fact that the mercury itself does not explain the constellation of symptoms that accompany regressive autism."

It did here. We had an (regressive) ASD boy with every symptom save head-banging and spreading his own fecal matter.

We tried EVERY therapy and bio-medical intervention. We gave thousands to a 'top' DAN, and the 'best' therapists. Most of the therapies were crap, but they did give me a respite, which I did appreciate and needed desperately.

Many of the bio-med stuff was helpful, and made my son more comfortable. The diet (GF/CF/SF) was good and reduced symptoms. The bacteria/yeast killers were game-changers.

But when we began using Dr Andrew Cutler's low-dose oral ALA chelation, we had truly boarded the train to Recovery. The difference was striking, and the positive changes continued week after week, year after year.

After nearly 200 rounds in 4 years, all, ALL traces of ASD are gone. The body and brain have healed with the continuous mercury removal.

Hg causes ASD

ALA + DMSA removes ASD

"The Western government-controlled people are an "intensively vaccinated borderline autistic fat man slumped in front of a screen battling a high-fructose corn syrup comedown", claims Putin who says that Russians "must be protected ... at all costs".

The report says that President Putin believes the next stage of human evolution is currently in “grave risk” and that Western and global powers are “intentionally decelerating the process for their personal gain.”

“We as a species have the choice to continue to develop our bodies and brains in a healthy upward trajectory, or we can follow the Western example of recent decades and intentionally poison our population with genetically altered food, pharmaceuticals, vaccinations, and fast food that should be classified as a dangerous, addictive drug.”

“We must fight this. A physically and intellectually disabled population is not in our interests,” the report states.

Describing the average government-controlled Westerner as an “intensively vaccinated borderline autistic fat man slumped in front of a screen battling a high-fructose corn syrup comedown,” the report states that such tactics used by governments to subjugate their citizens are not only “dark/evil” but “counter-productive in the medium to long term.”

http://yournewswire.com/putin-human-evolution-under-threat-by-big-pharma-gmo-vaccines/

Thanks, Lisa. I remember reading a few weeks ago about the Zika virus and thinking that there was no proof that it was causing the birth defects -at least the way the article I read was written. Talk about correlation not equaling causation. Isn't it something that when the vaccine strain of measles virus is found alive and well in inflamed intestines of very sick children, the decision is that the vaccine strain has nothing to do with the inflammation - that the measles' presence is just a coincidence. Presence doesn't mean causation either, if it's the vaccine strain.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35336618:

"The US State Department confirmed its first case of a baby born with brain damage because of infection by the Zika virus.
The baby was born in a hospital in Oahu, Hawaii.
The Hawaii State Department of Health said the mother WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE CONTRACTED ZIKA while living in Brazil in May 2015 and that the baby was MOST LIKELY INFECTED IN THE WOMB."

NYT:

(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/health/hawaii-reports-baby-born-with-brain-damage-linked-to-zika-virus.html?_r=0):

"The first case of brain damage linked to the Zika virus within the United States was reported on Friday in Hawaii.

The Hawaii State Department of Health said that a baby born in an Oahu hospital with microcephaly — an unusually small head and brain — had been infected with the Zika virus, which IS BELIEVED to have caused the same damage in thousands of babies in Brazil in recent months. The presence of the virus was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The child’s mother had lived in Brazil in May last year and PROBABLY WAS INFECTED by a mosquito then, early in her pregnancy, the health department said. The virus PRESUMABLY reached the embryo and damaged its developing brain...

SCIENTISTS DO NOT YET KNOW HOW THE ZIKA VIRUS DAMAGES FETAL BRAINS. It is related to the dengue, yellow fever and West Nile viruses, which normally do not cause such damage; it is not closely related to rubella or cytomegalovirus, which are known to cause microcephaly.

The virus was first discovered in monkeys in the Zika Forest in Uganda in 1947. It is widespread in Africa and Southeast Asia but had never been seen as a major threat because THE DISEASE IT CAUSES IS USUALLY MILD. About 80 percent of people who get the virus show no symptoms; those who do usually get a fever, rash and red eyes, but they rarely require hospitalization.

In 2007, the Asian strain of the virus was detected moving across the South Pacific; it caused a large outbreak on Yap Island that year. By late 2014, it had reached Easter Island, off the coast of Chile.

The connection to microcephaly was not made until late last year in Brazil. The virus first appeared in the country in May, and epidemiologists estimate that more than 1.5 million Brazilians have been infected.

In October, doctors in Pernambuco State noticed a surge in cases of microcephaly. Normally, about 150 cases of the birth defect are reported in Brazil each year. Since October, more than 3,500 have been reported there.

IT IS ALSO NOT KNOWN whether the virus alone causes microcephaly or if it happens only if the mother has a previous infection, such as with dengue virus."
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Brazil announces funding for development of Zika virus vaccine
Published January 17, 2016Fox News Latino

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2016/01/17/brazil-announces-funding-for-development-zika-virus-vaccine/

"The final victory against the virus will only come when we develop a vaccine against that disease."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert Friday advising pregnant women to avoid traveling to Brazil and several other countries in the Americas where Zika outbreaks have occurred."
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Stopping tourism income will get the vaccine developed in a hurry.

Dan, I applaud all of your incredible research. In the end it will be important to understand exactly how the brain is affected. I will keep trying to point this out.

See: (1) Oyanagi K. et al. The auditory system in methyl mercurial intoxication: a neuropathological investigation on 14 autopsy cases in Niigata, Japan. Acta Neuropathol. 1989;77:561, and (2) Musiek FE, Hanlon DP. Neuroaudiological effects in a case of fatal dimethylmercury poisoning. Ear Hear. 1999 Jun;20:271.

Is there some sort of dispute over safety of ethyl versus methyl, or di-methyl? If it's mercury it is poisonous isn't it?

The auditory system is most vulnerable to all unhealthy substances. This is because aerobic metabolism is higher in the auditory system than anywhere else in the brain, as shown in experiment after experiment with the method of Sokoloff L. The deoxyglucose method: theory and practice. Eur Neurol. 1981;20:137.

Auditory system damage in early childhood will disrupt language development, and maturation of the language areas in the cerebral cortex.

Lead and bismuth also damage the auditory system, as do many chemical substances, including ethyl alcohol. The neuropathology has been referred to for more than 100 years as Wernicke's encephalopathy, the affliction of alcoholics. See Thomson AD et al. Wernicke's encephalopathy revisited. Translation of the case history section of the original manuscript by Carl Wernicke 'Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten fur Aerzte and Studirende' (1881) with a commentary. Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 Mar-Apr;43:174.

In PubMed lookup pyrithiamine, methyl bromide, carbonyl sulfide, alpha chlorohydrin. Add brainstem with each to narrow the search. These chemicals all damage the brain in the same way that 6 to 10 minutes of asphyxia does at birth, or in adulthood.

Willie,

Are you in part talking of this?

http://www.thedogplace.org/VACCINES/ImmuneSystem-Impact_Jordan-DVM-107.asp

How the body is effected by and then handles metals{esp. mercury} as a notable cause, a consequence of the real cause disturbing how the body removes certain metals, or a co-occurring cause with immune dysregulation and gene effects from vaccine effects from pathogens are things I have entertained.

As far back as November of 1977; down in the basement of the library's section on scientific periodicals, there was a long list of rat reactions to chemicals that bothered the hypothalamus. Just some of the descriptions were rats running around aimlessly, rats not interacting, rats being aggressive, male rats mating other male rats, rats getting fat, rats wasting away.

There was also a much longer list that kept growing; as the pile of periodicals stacked higher and higher of all the different chemicals and toxins that affected the hypothalamus and areas around that part of the brain, and rats trembling hind legs.

Then the list of toxins and chemicals that affected the hypothalamus began to grow and grow and grow.

It was one of those dark, long nights of Fall,when it gets dark really early, and I thought then how in the heck can we keep from having a disaster with human beings. I remember getting kind of scared, and turning the last periodic face down on the table. Being young and hopeful, I thought, I am over reacting and have been doing too much reading on environmental toxins doom and gloom. These toxins can't be everywhere, so I put my stuff up and went to join my girlfriends. They were a fun group of girls majoring in nursing, and one even had a car for the week. They all were going to go get the swine flu shot that Dr. Otero kept harping that the nurses should get, and then we were going to take that car down to the new Taco Tico and try some Mexican food.

Yeap, those toxins could not be everywhere, silly me!

Teresa,
Have looked at this aspect in relation to metallothionein. The following isn't from a credentialed resource, but rings true with many other facts that are accepted.

Gut Flora and Metal

"The toxicity of metals in the gut are strongly moderated by the presence of metallothionein. Metallothionein is involved in many functions of the body, including immunity, brain and gastrointestinal tract maturation, and the regulation of metals. Metallothionein is essential for maintenance of the proper ratio of copper to zinc. So much so, that a zinc/copper imbalance is the main indicator for a metallothionein malfunction. The malfunction could be due to a genetic weakness but may also be primarily induced by nutritional deficiencies and imbalances. The primary nutrient needed in the formation of metallothionein is zinc.

Therefore, metals that compete with zinc such as mercury and cadmium will eventually disturb metallothionein function. Metallothionein is crucial to the body in regulating and coping with toxic metals. It envelopes metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium, binding with them and carrying them out of the body. Mercury or lead in the gut require metallothionein in order to disable the toxic substance.

When mercury is ingested in any form, it produces destructive changes in the mucous membrane linings of the gastro-intestinal tract. It enters the blood circulation, travels to the tissues, and then damages literally every cell with which it comes into contact. Mercury has a long history of use as a disinfectant, and antibiotic. It is still used as an antibacterial preservative so it is certain that it would kill at least some of the flora. Ideally, ingested mercury is bound to metallothionein and transported out of the body through the bile and through the kidneys.

Without the effect of metallothionein, the toxic metals will interact with chemicals called sulfhydral groups. A combination of sulphur and hydrogen, these groups have tremendous power to bind to mercury, lead, and cadmium but especially mercury. Among the sulfhydral groups in the intestines are the enzymes that break down casein and gluten. Toxic metals and low zinc interfere with the enzyme functions giving rise to gluten intolerance to grains such as wheat, rye, barley and oats, and to dairy intolerance."

http://www.tvernonlac.com/gutflora.html

Thanks, again, for fighting for those of us who seem to have a more extreme level of vulnerability to harm from chemical exposure than most (I'm thinking of me and many in my family particularly, and I can't tell if it's in our genes...maybe our microbiome though...but I personally see the focus on the environment and autism and other diagnoses as protective of the diversity of the human race).

Save your breath Ann. Many of us who work with children who: cannot toilet or feed themselves, who bolt and drown, who have severe sensory and pain issues, who cannot communicate even with devices. You will never speak for most who have autism. That's awesome that you are doing well, now off you go.

Barry:
Thank you! My thoughts exactly!

Hi Ann, thanks for writing. It is always good to hear from our readers, especially ones with an autism diagnosis. I would ask you to look again at what I actually said -- i agree that people with autism are "worthy of acceptance and accommodation" but that because, in my view, autism results from an injury, it is also important to look at "prevention and treatment, as well." Note: "as well." Treatment for injury is appropriate for those who want it; and ending -- preventing -- the autism epidemic is a reasonable stance that conveys no hostility to those who have such a diagnosis. We will disagree, no doubt, about whether autism is an injury, but I believe the evidence shows that it is -- and, as I also said, the evidence is not my fault. Best, Dan

Yes Dan I think that Einstein was so right staying on problems longer can account for real progress although it may seem slow. I have just learned two new things that relate to the autism issue firstly how neuroplasticity could account for our savant autistics. I have known two special autistic people since they were small children both of whom have little or no speech but could perform extraordinary tasks beyond the scope of any other individuals of any age. And secondly that stimming is also seen in people close to death. According to my educationalist informant both of these may relate to neuroplasticity. In the first case neuroplasticity may advance the capacity of undamaged neurons to compensate for lost or damaged brain cells generating exceptional skills in the process. In the latter stimming may be an automatic process to invoke re-wiring, or to quieten mis-firing or check out essential brain activity. Neuron damage is claimed to result from heavy metals exposure. I do not believe that Thimerosal exposure has been curtailed to the extent claimed nor have I seen any reliable data about autism prevalence in groups born over the last ten years or so.
Tony Bateson Oxford UK

Hi John, thanks for the response. You write: "I think we have to be careful despite the fascination of the early history of autism which you and Mark have so brilliantly uncovered. I don't know how precisely it relates to the picture now with our children being exposed to manifold types of modern industrial toxins." To my mind, here's precisely how it relates: It implicates environmental causation from "modern industrial toxins" in a very direct way, perhaps more directly than any other evidence at hand. And it implicates vaccines in a powerful way. I do try to be careful to broaden the issue from ethyl mercury -- as I also wrote: "Lessons should be learned and shared about the hazards of other toxins to human development, including individual ingredients and the cumulative effects of the current vaccination schedule." We all have our ways into this broad issue of autism as neurological and immune injury that is being suppressed by the powers that be, and this is mine: I'm going to be mumbling about trees, seeds and diphtheria vaccines on my deathbed. That may be quixotic, but as Einstein said, "It's not that I'm smarter than anyone else, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

National Institutes of Health


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Vaccine. 2015 Nov 27;33(48):6736-44. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.10.076. Epub 2015 Oct 27.
Cumulative and episodic vaccine aluminum exposure in a population-based cohort of young children.

Glanz JM1, Newcomer SR2, Daley MF3, McClure DL4, Baxter RP5, Jackson ML6, Naleway AL7, Lugg MM8, DeStefano F9.
Author information

1Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, 10065 E. Harvard Avenue, Denver, CO 80218, United States; Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado School of Public Health, 13001 E. 17th Place, Campus Box B119, Aurora, CO 80045, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
2Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, 10065 E. Harvard Avenue, Denver, CO 80218, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
3Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, 10065 E. Harvard Avenue, Denver, CO 80218, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital CO, 13123 East 16th Avenue, Box 065, Aurora, CO 80045, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
4Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, 1000 North Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
5Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
6Group Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Ave #1600, Seattle, WA 98101, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
7Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, 3800 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97227, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
8Kaiser Permanente Department of Research and Evaluation, 100 S. Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
9Immunization Safety Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract
BACKGROUND:

In addition to antigens, vaccines contain small amounts of preservatives, adjuvants, and residual substances from the manufacturing process. Some parents have concerns about the safety of these ingredients, yet no large epidemiological studies have specifically examined associations between health outcomes and vaccine ingredients, other than thimerosal. This study examined the extent to which the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) could be used to study vaccine ingredient safety in children.
METHODS:

Children born 2004-2011 were identified in VSD data. Using immunization records, two cohorts were identified: children who were up-to-date and children who were undervaccinated before age 2 years. A database was also created linking vaccine type and manufacturer with ingredient amounts documented in vaccine package inserts. Thirty-four ingredients in two or more infant vaccines were identified. However, only amounts (in mg) for aluminum were consistently documented and commonly contained in infant vaccines. Analyses compared vaccine aluminum exposure across cohorts and determined the statistical power for studying associations between aluminum exposure and hypothetical vaccine adverse events.
RESULTS:

Among 408,608 children, mean cumulative vaccine aluminum exposure increased from 1.11 to 4.00mg between ages 92-730 days. Up-to-date children were exposed to 11-26% more aluminum from vaccines than undervaccinated children. Power analyses demonstrated that safety studies of aluminum could detect relative risks ranging from 1.1 to 5.8 for a range of adverse event incidence.
CONCLUSIONS:

The safety of vaccine aluminum exposure can be feasibly studied in the VSD. However, possible biological mechanisms and confounding variables would need to be considered before conducting any studies.

Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:

Aluminum; Immunizations

PMID: 26518400
[PubMed - in process]

$100 billion in assets will buy a lot of politicians, astroturf, mainstream media, and tobacco science. If DowDuPont gives one dollar to the victims of environmentally induced autism, they'd practically be admitting liability. Can they be sued?