Why do Drugmakers Still Defend the Use of Mercury in Their Vaccines?

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Why do Drugmakers Still Defend the Use of Mercury in Their Vaccines?

 

http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/15/why-do-drugmakers-still-defend-the-use-of-mer\

cury-in-their-vaccines.htm

 

Health advocates have expressed outrage over a CDC recommendation that

pregnant women, infants and children should continue to receive injections of

thimerosal-containing flu vaccines, which contain mercury.

 

This recommendation comes despite an Institute of Medicine advisory that

mercury-containing vaccines should not be injected into these sensitive

populations.

 

Thimerosal's harmful effects on the immune, metabolic and nervous systems

have been widely documented. However, Dr. Jay Lieberman, while making a

presentation for the CDC regarding the recommendation, ignored the bulk of

peer-reviewed research, and instead focused on a small number of highly

criticized and

flawed epidemiological studies that have found no harmful associations.

 

Dr. Lieberman has been a consultant to Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and

Sanofi-Pasteur, and is on the speakers' bureau for all three vaccine-makers.

Merck,

GlaxoSmithKline, and Sanofi-Pasteur all currently use thimerosal in their

products.

 

The majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury, an amount

considered unsafe for anyone weighing less than 550 pounds.

 

 

Medical News Today February 24, 2007

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63777 & nfid=rssfeeds

 

 

 

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Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

How can government officials go to sleep at night knowing that they are

allowing a toxic poison to be injected into harmless infants through

government-mandated vaccinations in the majority of the United States?

 

Either these officials have no conscience or they are brainwashed and

deceived. There is no doubt that mercury is a poison, plain and simple; that is

why

it is used as a " preservative " to kill organisms. That is also why it should

NEVER be used in infants.

 

There is NO moral justification to use this toxic poison in defenseless

infants.

 

How is the use of mercury in vaccines being defended?

 

The so-called experts

http://www.mercola.com/2006/jul/1/pediatrics_academy_still_fighting_mercury_bans\

_on_vaccines.htm and various governmental entities

http://www.mercola.com/2006/nov/7/the-fdas-latest-health-harming-stance-on-merc

ury.htm are being richly paid off by their tight association to the drug

company cartel. Despite the fact the thimerosal is largely responsible for the

blight of autism

http://www.mercola.com/2006/nov/7/the-fdas-latest-health-harming-stance-on-mercu\

ry.htm , " experts " like Dr. Jay Lieberman continue to

defend its use with faulty studies.

 

This reprehensible behavior is likely related to the fact that Lieberman has

been a consultant for three drug companies -- Sanofi-Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline

and Merck -- each with their own set of vaccine problems. None of those same

companies or the experts they hired would ever acknowledge that the autism

trend has slowed down and even reversed

http://www.mercola.com/2006/mar/21/cdc_fights_mercury_removal_in_vaccines.htm

since thimerosal has been removed from

some childhood vaccines.

 

Before you think about exposing your children to a vaccine, please review the

many risks and side effects http://www.mercola.com/2004/sep/1/vaccines.htm

associated with them first. That one step could mean the difference between

life and death.

 

On Vital Votes http://vitalvotes.com/blogs/default.aspx , Vince from Mt.

Holly, New Jersey says:

 

" The fact that the experts at the CDC and FDA support thimerosal in vaccines

is consistent. They approved it and they can not admit their mistake in doing

that.

 

" The argument about genetics is a red herring. When the health hazards of

smoking were still being debated one of the argument used by experts hired and

paid for by the tobacco industry was that tobacco did not cause cancer but it

was a genetic weakness in some smokers that caused it a very similar argument.

 

" To now admit that the thimerosal containing vaccines are worse than no

vaccine could cause parents of autistic children to sue.

 

" Medicine today is almost a religion; so much of what we practice is not

really supported by good evidence. One of the most sacred cows in that religion

is

vaccination.

 

" A recent BMJ article showed no reduction in the death rate of elderly who

had or had not had their flu shots. The study showed no benefit of inoculating

this population. However almost every physician recommends flu shots.

 

" The case against using thimerosal in children vaccines is overwhelming.

However good and highly credentialed doctors whose work demonstrates that fact

are ostracized as heretics. Doctors like Andrew Wakefield, Peter Flesher, and

others are shunned for their heresy. A reasoned discussion on the subject cannot

be allowed. "

 

Other responses to this article can be viewed at Vital Votes, and you can add

your own thoughts or vote on comments by first registering at Vital Votes.

http://vitalvotes.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=

 

 

Related Articles:

 

New Flu Vaccine is Loaded With Mercury

http://www.mercola.com/2005/sep/20/new_flu_vaccine_is_loaded_with_mercury.htm

 

 

Autism and Mercury

http://www.mercola.com/2001/feb/24/autism_mercury.htm

 

The Truth Behind the Vaccine Coverup

http://www.mercola.com/2004/sep/22/blaylock_vaccine_coverup.htm

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Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

I find it almost incomprehensible that thimerosal, the well-documented, toxic

mercury-containing preservative, is still in many vaccines, years after

federal agencies have mandated that it be removed from vaccines. Most people,

physicians included, don't understand that thimerosal is still used in most

vaccines and is likely one of the major contributing factors to vaccine

toxicity.

 

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. Injecting it into a child, whose nervous

system is rapidly developing, could have terrible consequences. So, before you

decide to vaccinate your children, do them a favor and look into the many risks

and side effects associated with common childhood vaccines. Doing so could mean

the difference between life and death.

 

When my colleague and regular columnist, Dr. Russell Blaylock, forwarded me

his latest manuscript, I was shocked and dismayed to read his review of a

secret 2000 meeting between CDC officials and scientists about the use of

thimerosal. I believe you will be too which is why I posted his entire

manuscript and

it will be posted over the upcoming issues. So please be sure and read the

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