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>1. Autism, EU says mercury in dental fillings no danger (huh?, are they

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>Sat Apr 5, 2008 9:13 am (PDT)

>CNN HELPS AUTISM DEBACLE BLOW UP IN GOVERNMENT'S FACE

>By Byron J. Richards, CCN, April 4, 2008

>

>On April 2, 2008 CNN spent the day bringing awareness to the problem of

>autism. Larry King’s segment, which included Jenny McCarthy along with a

>panel of

>guests, was particularly enlightening. My hat is off to Jenny, a celebrity

>mother who is making it quite uncomfortable for the Center for Disease

>Control

>(CDC) to ignore parents of Autistic children seeking answers. Why does a mom

>have to do the work of the CDC? The answer is rather simple: our

>government’s

>zeal to insist on too many vaccines while ignoring the actual risks is the

>driving force behind the autism tragedy. Sure there are many related

>factors ­ but

>the bottom line is that our government is causing disease at an alarming and

>devastating pace.

>

>It is an interesting comment on our society that an outspoken and impassioned

>mother of an autistic child, along with her partner (actor Jim Carrey), are

>the catalysts that are likely to cause a warped empire to crumble. Many

>before

>them have tried; and typically been burned at the stake. Jenny and Jim are

>the

>government’s worst nightmare. They can’t shut down their medical practice

>because they don’t have one. They can’t financially damage them into

>silence.

>And as they lead their autism March on Washington D.C. this June 4th it is

>quite clear that they haven’t a prayer of shutting them up. A powder keg

>is about

>to blow.

>

>Jenny, to her credit, takes a diplomatic view on vaccines. Here main point

>is that there are too many vaccines given too soon and that the vaccines

>contain too many toxic components. As both a leading defender of health

>freedom in

>this country and a top nutritionist who has helped numerous autistic

>children,

>I am more than happy to put the entire problem into perspective and give

>insights that will help many parents.

>

>A Brief History of Vaccines, Profits, and Politics

>Vaccines started the Big Pharma sickness industry over 100 years ago. While

>the public views vaccines in a preventive health context our government’s

>position is much more complex. Vaccines and germs are part of warfare, and

>the

>issue is deeply woven into national security interests. Military personnel

>are

>frequently subjected to experimental vaccines. Vaccines are a key

>component of

>herd mentality; i.e., the ability of those in power to get a population to

>behave. Public health is never in the best interest of any one person,

>which is

>why laws are concocted to enforce compliance. Unelected bureaucrats and

>scientists in our government agencies, tied financially to the profits of

>the drug

>industry and linked to the military, have been playing God for many

>decades. They

>know full well there will be deaths and injuries from vaccinations;

>collateral damage that is justified by prevented disease (a convenient and

>fear-driven

>argument).

>

>Our government has no problem manipulating data so that the benefits appear

>to outweigh the risks. Imagine having a calculator that always has the same

>conclusion no matter what data is entered. How can the risk of injuring 1

>in 150

>children for life be acceptable to Big Pharma and the revolving door CDC and

>FDA management? Any business would love to have the opportunity to produce a

>product and have the government mandate its sale. Government officials find

>lucrative jobs in the industries they regulate ­ after doing †is partly

>a side effect of the cancer within government agencies.

>

>Our government will never pay the price to screen children at risk for

>autism ­ that would be too proactive and expensive on the front end even

>prepare a reasonable patient history checklist that reflects obvious risk

>for vaccine injury ­ as too many parents would opt out. Rather, our

>specializes in lazy medicine ­ fire a shotgun and if someone gets i is

>their fault for standing there. Costs are now the burden of families on the

>back end of the equation; more profits for the sickness industry. If autism

>didn’t have painful little faces connected with it this problem would

>simply be

>swept under the rug, as is the 100,000 Americans (mostly elderly) killed by

>Big Pharma drugs every year.

>

>The problem for our government is that an admission of guilt on the

>autism-vaccine link causes the entire paradigm of the Big Pharma-driven

>Western-medicine sickness industry to collapse. Even worse in their eyes,

>it would send an

>earthquake through the brotherhood of Big Pharma, public health, the CDC, the

>FDA, the global elite, and the military. Other public health programs

>would be

>questioned ­ like polluting our water with a neurotoxin called fluo makes

>a population more docile and controllable.

>

>Unfortunately for parents combating autism, the problems of their child is

>only a portion of the issue they now must try to solve. They are up against a

>government dead set on preventing the truth from ever coming out. Once

>cornered,

>our government will play the national security card before fessing up to

>their sins or making any real effort to correct the damage they have done.

>

>A Major Crack in Our Government’s Armor

>The case of Hannah Poling is raising quite a stir. She is now 9 years old.

>As a healthy and normally developing 18-month-old girl she showed up for her

>well baby visit and was pummeled with 9 vaccinations, two of them

>containing the

>mercury preservative known as thimerosal. Her health immediately deteriorated

>into full blown autism.

>

>Her case was the first to be settled of 4,900 autism cases pending before

>federal Vaccine Court. She claimed that mercury-containing vaccines were the

>cause of her autism. In a shocking turn of events the federal government

>conceded

>this autism case saying that “compensation is appropriate.â€

>

>However, our government refused to admit vaccines caused her autism. Indeed,

>the government settled the case before there was even a hearing. The last

>thing the government wants is to put vaccines on public trial, and place

>pictures

>of injured children on the news every night, especially when the evidence of

>the case is so clear that vaccines will certainly lose.

>

>Rather, the CDC is hinting that it was Hannah’s mitochondria that were to

>blame, not the vaccines. This argument opens another Pandora’s box (more

>on that

>later).

>

>The defendant in all vaccine cases is the Department of Health and Human

>Services. The CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

>Talk

>about conflict of interest! A pack of foxes is in charge of the national

>chicken

>coop.

>

>How Our Government Defends Itself When It Is Clearly Wrong

>It is somewhat unfortunate that those who have helped to champion the cause

>of our government’s involvement in vaccine injury have placed so many

>eggs in

>the thimerosal basket. Of course mercury is a nerve toxin and its involvement

>in autism is likely as a percentage of the problem. However, neither

>thimerosal nor any single vaccine is an adequate overall explanation for

>autism. .

>

>Our government is using various studies to deflect the vaccine-autism link.

>These studies relate to thimerosal and MMR vaccines, but not to the

>collective

>number of vaccines given at one time and the overall number of vaccines given

>so early in life (the real problem). This flimsy government defense is being

>used to deflect attention away from vaccines as a causative link to autism.

>

>This is a classic stalling tactic used by corrupt government and industry

>when they have been caught red-handed. This approach involves acknowledging

>certain aspects of the problem, making changes (they took thimerosal out

>of many

>vaccines), creating doubt (their “study†defense), and then continuing

>with the

>mass vaccination program even though they know it causes harm. This strategy

>will deflect most of the legal liability from vaccine-related injury,

>delaying

>it and then minimizing it over time. A legion of government-funded scientists

>can be paraded in a courtroom for decades with the sole purpose of creating

>doubt and delaying taking responsibility for the problem. An admission of

>guilt

>opens a floodgate of liability lawsuits.

>

>They think their skimpy studies give them breathing room so that they can now

>direct attention elsewhere to mysterious possibilities like genetics or

>environmental toxins that will also take them decades to figure out. True

>enough,

>these issues are also a percentage of the problem ­ so much so that used

>to confuse the vaccine link for a long time. The government’s defense is

>always that more research is needed. This is not research that proves what

>they are doing is safe before they continue to do it; it is research that

>proves

>what they are doing is harmful before they stop doing it. Unfortunately,

>behind closed doors they cherry pick their research results as well as

>what they

>choose to study.

>

>In the mean time these unelected bureaucrats continue to unabashedly

>administer a vaccine program that injures and kills. Most societies would

>either call

>this murder or involuntary manslaughter. Why don’t we hear Bush, McCain,

>Clinton, or Obama weighing in on this issue? Why don’t they stand on

>stage with a

>group of autistic children and tell mothers everywhere how important vaccines

>are?

>

>When the Hannah Polling case got on the radar map and blew up in the

>government’s face, a damage control press conference was held. Dr. Julie

>Gerberding,

>Director of the CDC, stated, “There's absolutely nothing changed in the

>adamant recommendations that we are making to get children vaccinated.

>This is

>proven to save lives and is an essential component of health protection for

>children across America and the world.†Dr. Gerberding should be the

>first to stand

>trial.

>

>Why Vaccines are a Problem

>It is quite clear that the rate of autism in this country is directly

>time-associated with the increased numbers of vaccines given to children. The

>explosion in autism between 1987 and 1992 coincides with the tripling in

>the numbers

>of vaccines given to our children. While such data is not proof of cause and

>effect, it is significant and cannot be ignored by any responsible parent (it

>is ignored by the government and medical profession).

>

>Numerous parents report taking their healthy child to the doctor, getting a

>barrage of vaccinations, having their child run a high fever, and their child

>never again being the same. THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM THAT PARENTS SEE WITH

>THEIR OWN TWO EYES.

>

>The current government strategy is to keep arguing about thimerosal and MMR

>vaccines ­ as they know they can create enough doubt to win that ar the

>majority of the scientific community. What the government does not want to

>discuss is the adjuvant in vaccines ­ which will clearly be shown t autism

>trigger.

>

>Vaccines contain weakened “signatures†of a disease. By themselves

>they are

>not strong enough for the immune system to mount a response. This problem is

>solved by adding a “booster†compound called an adjuvant. An adjuvant

>does

>not contain any signature of the disease. Rather, the adjuvant initiates an

>inflammatory reaction (the first step in any immune response). The idea is

>to get

>the immune system revved up so that it can see the weakened disease and learn

>what it looks like so that if it ever sees it again it will be more prepared

>to fight it. This concept, in and of itself, has validity ­ but onl right

>set of circumstances.

>

>It is clear that those with autism have an excessively inflamed brain. If

>pressed, the CDC would likely argue that the brain inflammation is a

>result of

>the autism and that they need more studies to determine the cause. I will

>argue

>that they don’t need any more studies at all and that the cause is

>blatantly

>obvious based on an understanding of existing science. The multiple

>inflammatory insults from the adjuvant in vaccines, at a rate of 1 in 150

>cases, sets

>the brain on fire and causes autism. As an aside, and to a lesser extent (but

>just as important to society), a minor brush fire causes ADHD and impaired

>intelligence.

>

>How Your Brain Works

>The crumbling paradigm of Western medicine likes to break down body function

>according to convenient classifications such as nerves, immunity, hormones,

>etc. In reality your brain is a central processor of all systems in your body

>and thus has connections that link nerves, immune function, and hormones into

>one symphony of function. In other words, it is not possible to study only

>neurotransmitters like serotonin or dopamine and actually understand what

>your

>brain is doing.

>

>Ten percent of the cells in your brain are neurotransmitter related. The

>other 90% are glial cells, also called astrocytes. For decades scientists

>thought

>that 90% of your brain was nothing more than a structural framework, simply

>because scientific tools were not adequate to understand what glial cells

>were

>doing, but that has changed in the past 10 years. Glial cells run your brain

>and your neurotransmitters. They are the brokers of all information coming

>into

>your brain ­ with direct links to your immune system and endocrine (hormones).

>

>Glial cells are the inflammation brokers in your brain. When stress, a toxin

>pollutant, or a destructive food additive (like MSG, aspartame, or food

>coloring) enter your brain they induce excitotoxic reactions that inflame

>brain

>cells. This inflammation is buffered primarily by the hormone leptin and

>other

>antioxidants, a process that intimately involves the healthy function of

>glial

>cells.

>

>When the buffering anti-inflammatory capacity of glial cells is overloaded,

>then inflammation becomes chronic. Minimally, this results in brain wear and

>tear. It is the mechanism behind all accelerated brain aging and,

>depending on a

>person’s genetic weaknesses and other health issues, leads to various

>states

>of early cognitive decline and nerve-related diseases of aging such as

>Alzheimer’s.

>

>There is also a point at which low grade brain inflammation catches fire. In

>adults with an established nerve network this causes a “power outageâ€

>in the

>head, otherwise known as spreading depression. Such an event is typically

>triggered by emotional pain or physical pain of a prolonged nature or acute

>intensity (elevating substance P to abnormally high levels). Such trauma

>pushes

>struggling nerves over the edge.

>

>The difference in a fetus or small child is that the nervous system is still

>rapidly evolving. If the brain catches fire at this age proper development of

>the nerves can be seriously disturbed (the autism spectrum of disorders) or

>functionally impaired (ADHD, lower IQ).

>

>The adjuvant in vaccine is pro-inflammatory; i.e., neurologically

>excitotoxic. That is intentional so as to boost the effectiveness of the

>vaccine. The

>problem comes about when giving so many of them at once, which can injure

>even a

>perfectly healthy child. Giving multiple adjuvants is like playing Russian

>roulette with a child’s brain. Children with already inflamed nerves are

>at much

>higher risk for reacting to multiple vaccines, as their nerves have been

>conditioned to hyper-react. Don’t think for a moment that Dr. Gerberding

>and other

>scientists at the CDC aren’t fully aware of this issue.

>

>Government Responsibility

>Our government has the responsibility to prove the safety of any vaccination

>being recommended for broad public health, as part of an overall vaccine

>program. Our current knowledge of science, the immune system, and the

>brain would

>make it unlikely that broad vaccine programs could ever be approved for use

>today if they hadn’t being going on for so long.

>

>Our government is not only grossly negligent on the vaccine issue itself, but

>on numerous other true public health issues that pose a significant risk for

>brain inflammation in fetuses and children. The CDC, the EPA, and the FDA all

>play large roles in creating huge autism risk for our population.

>

>Space in this article only allows a few examples; there are many.

>Environmental pollution that is fat soluble can cross the placenta, exists

>in mother’s

>milk, or occurs in the general food supply fed to small children. Fat soluble

>toxins cross the blood-brain barrier and induce nerve inflammation.

>

>Huge public health risks include widespread contamination of our food supply

>with fat soluble PCB toxins, a problem that would cost at least 50 billion

>dollars to clean up. Another example of broad exposure is the neurotoxic

>pesticides used on food (originally Nazi nerve gas agents). Another

>example is the

>military’s poisoning of our water supply with perchlorate, a contaminant

>now

>found in breast milk of mothers across the country. This interferes with

>thyroid

>function in the baby, resulting in a serious risk for faulty brain

>development.

>

>Another example is iron fortification of baby formulas, which encourages the

>growth of hostile bacteria and Candida Albicans in the child’s digestive

>tract; organisms that produce neurotoxic waste products. Another example

>is the use

>of antibiotics before age 1, which also encourages the growth of the very

>same hostile bacteria and Candida. C-Section deliveries also increased the

>risk

>for a hostile digestive terrain in the baby. Candida itself directly

>communicates to and promotes inflammation in the human immune system

>causing it to

>malfunction.

>

>Yet another example is the widespread use of antidepressants by pregnant and

>nursing mothers, which drastically disturbs the evolving function of nerves

>and overall health of the fetus or baby. And then there is the vaccine

>preservative thimerosal (different than an adjuvant), which is a

>neuro-inflammatory in

>and of itself. And this is the short list.

>

>All of these issues play a role as a percentage of the problem that induces

>friction in the developing nervous system of a fetus, baby, or young child

>and

>primes the nerves to hyper-react to vaccines. Each of these problems is a

>true public health problem because they are caused by industry and are

>allowed to

>continue by various vested interests. Each one will take tens of billions of

>dollars to fix. However, that is actually the responsibility of government ­

>to fix costly and broad public health problems ­ not to make them w

>The Genetic Red-Herring

>The case of Hannah Poling has forced our government to show its hand –

>and a

>very weak hand it is. They will continue to bluff and confuse the public with

>scientific gibberish in an effort to misdirect. Their defense in the Poling

>case, even though they conceded the case, is that the child had genetic

>mitochondrial dysfunction.

>

>Mitochondria are the car engines in your cells that produce energy (ATP). ATP

>is the energy currency in your body, much like money in your wallet. You

>spend ATP, as needed, to do anything. Inflammation uses up ATP by causing

>your

>body to go into a hyper mode (like a 911 phone call). If ATP production is

>compromised then inflammation can run wild ­ contributing to the br autism.

>

>True mitochondrial gene mutations are too rare to explain autism, so the

>government is trying to blame this mechanism in the Poling case to deflect

>the

>idea that vaccines are a risk for the majority.

>

>What the government isn’t saying is that, independent of a true genetic

>issue, mitochondria can be taxed into a state of stress that predisposes

>any child

>to autism risk. You don’t need to have a gene mutation; that is simply a

>diversion and cover-up attempt.

>

>Furthermore, the glial cells in your brain use ATP to communicate, a

>separate function than energy currency. This means that any time you run

>low in

>overall body energy, brain function is compromised and tilted into a

>pro-inflammatory mode. This is why stress makes you tired and causes you

>to feel physical

>wear and tear. It is also why any time you exercise, which conditions your

>body

>to make ATP more efficiently, your head feels better. When glial cells run

>low

>on ATP they enter a low grade chronic inflammatory mode ­ a conditi

>seriously predisposes to vaccine injury.

>

>Reducing the Risk for Adverse Vaccine Reactions

>The bottom line for any parent is to not expose their child to vaccines

>under circumstances that are likely to increase the odds of a brain fire that

>results in autism. Fewer vaccines in general, not giving so many at once, and

>giving them at older ages are all common sense.

>

>Additionally, proper nutrition during pregnancy, during lactation, and the

>overall fitness and health habits of the mother have a profound effect on

>having a child with a stronger nervous system. It is quite clear that the

>obesity

>hormone leptin is elevated in the blood of autistic children. This is a risk

>factor linked to obesity in the mother with consequent abnormal fetal

>programming of the developing brain which is then handicapped to buffer

>inflammation

>from toxic exposure like vaccines.

>

>High leptin in the blood means that leptin isn’t getting into the brain.

>Leptin is the primary buffer in the brain against inflammatory excitotoxic

>damage. This is why boys have four times the rate of autism compared to

>girls. Girls

>have naturally higher levels of protective leptin in their brains, mostly to

>help them get pregnant and nurse their children in later life. My books on

>leptin (Mastering Leptin and The Leptin Diet) explain how leptin works in

>much

>greater detail. A mother’s health and eating habits, prior to and during

>pregnancy, play a large role in the health of her baby’s nervous system.

>

>Likewise, family stress during pregnancy and early childhood development are

>important to how a child processes stress and consequent nerve inflammation.

>Conflicts between husband and wife, in front of a child (including a child in

>the womb), primes nerves to be inflamed. Providing a stable environment for

>mother and child is a main reason for the family unit ­ and in my o

>responsibility of men.

>

>Thus we see that there are multiple factors, some under your control and

>many that are not, acting in one way or another to prime the nerves into a

>chronic low-grade inflammatory state which sets the stage for increased

>risk of

>vaccine injury.

>

>One of the very worst times to vaccinate a child is directly after an illness

>or surgery ­ which are highly inflammatory events. Unfortunately, d t seem

>to understand health very well and it is often the case that the

>parent has brought the child to the doctor because of an illness or a

>follow up

>from some other medical procedure. At that time the doctor says “Oh, your

>vaccinations are not up to date.†And then gives them to a child who is

>already

>neurologically inflamed. Such medical malpractice is a disaster, and

>common in this

>country.

>

>Parents who have children with digestive problems, recurring infections,

>asthma, allergies, or any other sign of immune weakness should not vaccinate

>until such problems are fully resolved. These problems also indicate a

>high level

>of existing brain inflammation.

>

>It is pathetic that the CDC does not publish a list of guidelines for parents

>that would dramatically reduce the risk for vaccine injury (low cost and low

>tech). The “more research is needed†excuse is enough to make everyone

>vomit.

>Of course we could do far more by screening for inflammatory brain markers

>and immune system dysfunction ahead of any round of vaccines (high cost

>and high

>tech). The days of blindly vaccinating children according to a schedule,

>while ignoring the child’s state of existing nerve inflammation and

>immune system

>function are over. Parents should revolt. This is a national tragedy. The

>government’s vaccination program is indeed the cause of the autism epidemic.

>

>Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is a

>Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist and nationally-renowned health

>expert, radio

>personality, and educator. He is the author of Mastering Leptin, The

>Leptin Diet, and

>Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America.

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>BEFORE READING THE FOLLOWING, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO:

>

>How Mercury causes Brain Neuron Degeneration

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>On 15 January, Reuters reported about a European scientific Committee report

>stating that Amalgams pose no health risk to the human nervous system.

>

>The report was prepared by the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly

>Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR ) which is made up of external experts.

>According to Ulla Danielsen, a Danish journalist, the committee consists

>of seven

>members, four of which are dentists and have declared to have connections

>with the

>dental industry. The report is available in PDF format from the EU Committe's

>website.

> > SCENIHR recognises that dental amalgam is an effective restorative

> material

> > and, from the perspectives of longevity, the mechanical performance and

> > health economics, may be considered the material of choice for some

> restorations

> > in posterior teeth, including replacement therapy for existing amalgam

> > fillings. However, because dental amalgam is neither tooth-coloured nor

> adhesive to

> > remaining tooth tissues, its use has been decreasing in recent years

> and the

> > alternative tooth-coloured filling materials have become increasingly more

> > popular.

>This rather upbeat assessment of mercury dental fillings however seems to be

>contradicted by what is generally known about the toxicity of the highly

>volatile metal, which the Committee acknowledges with the following words:

> > Mercury is the major metallic element used in dental amalgam. It is

> > recognized that mercury in general does constitute a toxicological

> hazard, with

> > reasonably well defined characteristics for the major forms of exposure,

> > involving elemental mercury, organic and inorganic mercury compounds.

> It is accepted

> > that the reduction in use of mercury in human activity would be beneficial

> > both for the decrease in indirect human exposure and environmental

> > considerations.

>The report is clearly industry-friendly and - contrary to what the

>Committee's name would seem to indicate - is leaving the " emerging health

>risks " of

>mercury unexplored. This has led to protests by a number of scientists,

>medical

>doctors and associations including the French association " No to dental

>mercury " , Vera Stejskal, Professor of Immunology at the University of

>Stockholm,

>Sweden, the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology, Dr.

>Joachim Mutter

>of the Institute for Environmental Medicine in Freiburg, Germany, the Swedish

>Chemicals Agency (KEM) and the European Academy for Environmental Medicine in

>Würzburg, Germany. It also is worthy of note that the report appears to be

>completely out of tune with the European Commission's strategy to gradually

>eliminate mercury from the environment by reducing production and instituting

>strict controls on how mercury must be eliminated. The EU has a toxic hazards

>strategy to eliminate mercury, but according to the SCENIHR report there is

>nothing wrong with putting the poison in people's mouths. That just

>doesn't make any

>sense! A public protest asking that the EU report be withdrawn and that a new

>expert group consisting of both competent and impartial experts be appointed

>to rewrite it, is available at the website of the Luxembourg based

>association

>AKUT.

>

>A collection of signatures has been initiated on the internet. In 10 european

>languages environmentalists urge EU authorities to withdraw report. By Ulla

>Danielsen, journalist Citizens in Europe have initiated a cross-border

>collection of signatures demanding an official report of the EU to be

>withdrawn. The

>writers of the disputed report are accused of having close relationships with

>the dental industry. Their message is coloured by these connections, when

>they

>maintain in the report that amalgam containing mercury poses no health risks,

>the environmentalists point out. The conclusions of the pro-amalgam report

>have been much exposure through the global news media. The danish Dentist’s

>Journal has quoted the report's conclusions, saying that amalgam is safe. The

>EU-citizens protest targets the so-called SCHENIHR-report about the safety of

>dental amalgams. The committee behind the report consists of seven

>members. Four of

>them are dentists, and they have all declared that they have connections with

>the dental industry. However, even the chairman of the group, professor D.F.

>Williams of Great Britain, whose CV is available on internet, probably cannot

>declare to be without connections to the dental industry, assumes medical

>doctor Helge Volkmann, Copenhagen, who has studied the SCHENIHR-report. Helge

>Volkmann is a member of an international forum, which has initiated a

>collection

>of signatures to put pressure on the EU authorities to withdraw the

>report. The

>collection of signatures takes place on initiative of the environmental

>organization AKUT based in Luxembourg. " We have experienced, that the

>public health

>systems in the EU-countries haven’t dedicated themselves to acquiring a

>competent knowledge about diagnostics and treatment of amalgam- and mercury

>poisoning " , the environmentalists write on AKUT’s homepage. They point

>out that the

>writers of the report in question neither have “competent medical

>knowledgeâ€

>as it is expressed nor have they mercury-poisoned patients in treatment.

>“We

>protest against the content and the conclusions in the EU-reportâ€,

>writes AKUT

>among other things on their homepage, and they not only ask for a

>withdrawal of

>the report, but also for a new report to be written by a group of independent

>and competent scientists. The collection of signatures on AKUT’s homepage

>takes place in several languages: French, English, German, Danish, Norwegian,

>Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Furthermore nine

>international

>experts, who are either medical doctors or researchers and come from Sweden,

>Germany, France, Norway, the USA and Denmark, have complained to the

>EU-authorities about the SCHENIHR-report’s conclusions and quality.

>SCHENIHR is an

>abbreviation for “Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified

>Health

>Risks. The report is titled: “The safety of dental amalgam and

>alternative dental

>restoration materials for patients and usersâ€. EU-REPORT SILENT ABOUT

>RESULTS

>FROM AUTOPSIES The EU-report is being criticised for what it does not

>mention.

>Critics say that it is 30 years behind current science. The so-called

>SCHENIHR-report whitewashes the health risks of mercury containing dental

>amalgams.

>One of nine European experts, the medical doctor Joachim Mutter of the

>University Hospital of Freiburg in Germany, wonders, why the writers of

>the report fail

>to mention the results of autopsies. “Dental amalgam is without doubt the

>main source of the total human mercury burdenâ€. That has been proven

>through many

>autopsy studies. Individuals with mercury fillings have been found to have

>from 2 to 12 times more mercury in body tissues than individuals without such

>fillings. Studies of autopsies are a most important and valuable tool in

>investigating the mercury burden caused by dental amalgams. " It is

>difficult to

>understand why the SCHENIHR-report makes no reference to results from

>autopsies "

>writes the german medical doctor in his complaint. The Swedish university

>lecturer Mats Hanson expresses similar concerns about the SCHENIHR-report,

>“which

>make itself more noticeably for what is left out than for what it

>contains. The

>report does not reflect current knowledge about mercury and amalgams and

>seems

>to be 30 years behind in time. It seems to reflect wishful thinking of the

>industries and the dentist schools†writes Mats Hanson.

 

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