A Discussion About Vaccines

I had an online discussion with two gentlemen about the link between vaccines and autism.  This was my response to them:

I believe that the pharmaceutical industry would love for us to believe that there is no link between vaccines and autism.  I will admit that even though I know little of Wakefield’s studies, they sounded questionable.  He seemed very focused on the MMR, but that wasn’t the only vaccine that parents of vaccine injured children would complain about.

[To address what one individual said about correlation NOT implying causation]; this is very, very true and I agree with you very strongly.  Correlation is merely a place to start when investigating cause.  So let’s start with correlation in regard to vaccines and autism.  Since 1989, vaccine dosages have more than tripled and autism skyrocketed from 1 in 2500 in to 1 in 110.  Now, this is just the correlation.  Should we be concerned?  Absolutely!  The question is what is linking these two variables?  Is the rise in vaccinations causing the rise in autism or is there another variable that we aren’t looking at?  I have a strong suspicion that there is a hidden variable that we aren’t looking at; only it hasn’t been a hidden variable for the last couple of years.  Dr. Boyd Haley has been warning about the dangers of thimerosal in the vaccines for the last couple of years.  Thimerosal, as you may know, is a preservative used in many vaccines and it contains 49% mercury (ethyl mercury).  It doesn’t take an MD to tell most of us that mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin.  In most debates that I’ve watched about the link between autism and vaccinations, thimerosal was almost always overlooked.  Several studies done by scientists like Dr. Haley showed that thimerosal can damage and even destroy brain cells and cause disabilities like autism.  According to Robert Kennedy, the amount of mercury that was injected into children was about 400 times the amount the FDA would normally allow.  So why have they continued to use this dangerous neurotoxin as a preservative?  Money!  It is a very cheap preservative.  As the wife of someone who worked for the government for more than 10 years, government will choose the cheapest way the law will allow…ALWAYS!  Another variable varies from individual to individual and that is glutathione levels.  Why is it that most children survive the vaccine schedule?  This is a very fair question.  Obviously out of 110 children 109 have enough glutathione to remove the mercury from their bodies before it causes any visible damage.  Everyone has different physical strengths and weaknesses.  Just because some can smoke and live until they are in their 90s until they die of old age doesn’t mean that smoking doesn’t cause lung diseases.

Just recently, the pharmaceutical industry finally started phasing thimerosal out; thank goodness.  There are many vaccines that no longer contain it.  It will be interesting to see what will happen as a result of this.