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Recent Autism Studies Do Not Actually Vindicate Vaccines

mother, child, babyThree separate autism-related studies recently published, resulted in media headlines that suggested vaccines do not cause autism.

In reality, and despite headlines such as “Vaccine not linked to autism” and “Thimerosal Vaccine Proved Safe,” the studies may have been tainted by conflict of interest. For instance:
  • A study published in Pediatrics that claimed thimerosal was not a cause of autism was funded by the National Institutes of Health (which would be negatively impacted if a link was found). Also, the study’s researchers were reportedly paid by vaccine manufacturers for past consulting.
  • A study in the Archives of General Psychiatry that reportedly disproved the mercury-autism link may have had financial ties to vaccine manufacturers.
Meanwhile, just prior to the release of the studies, ABC ran an episode of “Eli Stone” that showed a jury awarding over $5 million to a mother who believed her son’s autism was caused by a vaccine.

There is now speculation that the studies, and resulting pro-vaccine media frenzy, was a carefully orchestrated attempt to minimize the impacts of this anti-vaccine TV episode.

Finally, while the pro-vaccine studies received major media attention, a study in the Journal of Child Neurology actually found that "significant relation does exist between the blood levels of mercury and diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder” -- yet it received little media attention when it was published several months ago.

Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola's Comments:
You can rest assured that there are very powerful influences at play -- namely pharmaceutical companies and the government agencies that are significantly influenced and manipulated by them -- that do not want word to get out that vaccines may be implicated in the autism epidemic going on right now -- but word already has.

The link between vaccines that contain the mercury preservative thimerosal and autism go back almost a decade. Thimerosal is nearly 50 percent ethylmercury, and it is already an established fact that exposure to mercury can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions -- all similar to traits defining, or associated with, autism.

One 2004 study that reviewed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Vaccine Data Link even concluded that children who receive thimerosal-containing vaccinations are 27 times more likely to develop autism than children who do not.

I suspect you will agree with me that that is a massive increase.

Fortunately, mercury has finally been removed from many childhood vaccinations -- with one exception: flu shots.

Most flu shots still contain thimerosal. It says so right on the CDC’s own Web site that “the majority of influenza vaccines distributed in the United States currently contain thimerosal as a preservative.”

So it is my serious recommendation to keep all flu shots, and any vaccination that contains thimerosal, far away from your children.

If you want “proof,” consider the telling fact that autism rates have been falling since this mercury preservative has been removed from most vaccines.

Other Possible Causes of Autism

While I believe that vaccines do play a role in some cases of autism, there is another relatively new cause that I am absolutely convinced is a major player: cell phones.

The information-carrying radio waves from cell phone base stations and cell phones -- which you and your children are being exposed to at unprecedented levels, and regardless of whether you use a cell phone or not -- makes children’s exposure to vaccines and heavy metals much more dangerous than they typically are.

Why?

Because the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) may actually trap heavy metals, which are associated with autism, inside your cells, allowing them to cause damage and hindering your body from detoxifying them.

Keep in mind that you can be exposed to heavy metals not only from vaccines, but also from pollution and food (fish being a primary one). For some kids, the excessive exposure to heavy metals, combined with exposure to EMR that hinders their bodies’ ability to detoxify these metals naturally, proves to be just too much, and autism may develop as a result.

So please do not allow your children to use cell phones, and certainly never hold an infant while you are using one (when you are on a cell phone the radiation plume can easily reach an infant in your other arm and penetrate their skull).

Dr. Geerd Hamer's German New Medicine  has also uncovered a potential link having to do with autism and a mother's emotional state during her pregnancy. Dr. Hamer believes that it is possible that if a woman feels judged, rejected, or in some way incapable during her pregnancy, it could have a negative impact on her unborn child's future emotional health.

This, along with another trigger, such as mercury exposure, could potentially increase the likelihood of autism in her child.
What You Can Do to Treat or Prevent Autism

I outlined seven of by best recommendations in this past article, and they bear repeating here:

1. Eat a diet tailored to your nutritional type for optimal health. In my experience, nearly ALL children seem to respond favorably to the dietary changes when properly implemented.

2. Pasteurized milk restriction is an ABSOLUTE imperative to the treatment of autism. Anyone managing this illness without restricting milk is deceiving themselves. This includes all milk products, such as ice cream, yogurt and whey. Even natural flavorings in food must be avoided unless the processor can guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that caseinate is not included.

3. Complete elimination of sugar, juice, soda, French fries and wheat (pasta, bagels, cereal, pretzels, etc) is also highly recommended.

4. Get proper sun exposure, as an additional theory that makes a whole lot of sense is the link between rampant vitamin D deficiency and the proportionate jump in autism. The vitamin D receptor appears in a wide variety of brain tissue early in the fetal development, and activated vitamin D receptors increase nerve growth in your brain 

5. Use an effective intervention to address any emotional stresses as soon as possible -- avoid having destructive thoughts and emotions fester. Potent energy psychology tools such as the Emotional Freedom Technique are excellent for this purpose

6. Secretin has proven effective in relieving certain symptoms of autism. It is a powerful hormone, which has the ability to reduce intestinal permeability (leaky gut). I have even observed one 3-year-old who had no speech prior to secretin speak in full paragraphs just days after the infusion.

7. Homeopathy may also help ameliorate symptoms.
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Yoolie
 [ Joined on 01/08 ] [ Posted on March 1, 2008 ]
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I actually believe that it is every single person getting injected with every single vaccine available that is selfish. We have short-circuited our bodies' ability to heal itself by overcoming diseases that we are meant to survive (or not, as hard as that can be to face.)  I have never known anyone to think chicken pox was a horrible, frightening disease, at least in this era. So why do we need a vaccine for it? I am waiting for my son to contract chicken pox, and if all the children his age are getting vaccinated for it, how will his immune system be able to develop the way it was intended to?

My husband and I read the ingredient lists of all the vaccines that our pediatrician wanted to give our son. Some things we had to look up, others were obviously just way, way off base. Why in the world would you consent to injecting extract of sheep placenta into your child's bloodstream?! I mean, besides the fact that it is biological material from another species, who knows how that poor sheep was treated and what IT was injected with?

Oy, vay! I hope we can come to our senses soon about these things.

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Aaltrude
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It would be interesting to know who funded these studies and what bias there may be.
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Russ Bianchi
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  Mercola
The Jewel Encrusted Under Pants Advisory Board looks to have a smoking gun in their hands, and strewn dead bodies around them, (literally) , yet again...
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foxtroter_203
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These paragraphs say it all:

" One study exonerating Thimerosal as a culprit in autism was funded by the National Institutes of Health, a government-run agency that would be deeply affected if the mercury-laced preservative were to be implicated in the rise of autism. Additionally, it was reported that researchers involved in the study had been paid in the past for consulting with vaccine manufacturers.

Adding to bias concerns, another study involving the Archives of General Psychiatry disproving the mercury-autism link has been questioned by some because of the publication's apparent financial ties to vaccine manufacturers .

It is time for some objectivity to enter the autism-vaccine debate. More studies are needed involving researchers and sponsors who don't have a vested interest in the outcome of the results. Until that happens, reports that purportedly exonerate the role of vaccines in autism should be greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism and cynicism."

Garbage in equals garbage out!
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Aaltrude
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Thank you foxtroter. I didn't notice the second page the first time I looked at this article. Your comment made me go back and have a closer look.
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panetron
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  Mercola
I hope someone with enough passion to do something reads this.  I woke up this morning, frustrated yet again, with the fact that most people simply don't have time to think logically about the ties between pharmaceutical companies, government officials and media.  I thought a visual would be something that would be an incredibly valuable tools to help open peoples eyes so they [literally] "see" the truth.  I would do this.  Why not put a grid together, showing the ties between people who have a conflict of interest (work for a pharmaceutical company and also are on a governmental committee giving fda approval (or money to someone in this position) for a drug, vaccine, etc. to become main stream.  Highlighting the same person's name over and over again and showing the corruption would be a huge eye opener.  We could email this diagram all across the globe.  People would "see":  Let's form a team and change open eyes to the truth.
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Kissamee
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russ wrote:"
The Jewel Encrusted Under Pants Advisory Board looks to have a smoking gun in their hands, and strewn dead bodies around them, (literally) , yet again... "
What has this to do with Autism, watch out or green will turn to gone, you could get banned for "...at our discretion", posting off-topic...

back ontopic, One always hopes that truth will win out, but it looks like only big money wins, sigh

Kel
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CCHeart
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  Mercola

Read the book "Evidence of Harm" by David Kirby.  It reports from both sides.  You see the parents, the political and financial interest sides.  Make an informed decision and read this book.  I'd be writing a book myself if I expressed here what I learned reading this book in conjunction of all my studies on child development and what my personal experience has been and how it was unsuccessfully AND successfully addressed.
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CCHeart
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  Mercola

Read the book "Evidence of Harm" by David Kirby.  It reports from both sides.  You see the parents, the political and financial interest sides.  Make an informed decision and read this book.  I'd be writing a book myself if I expressed here what I learned on this subject and my personal experience in unsuccessful and SUCCESSFUL means to address these issues.
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curious7
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  Mercola

Why "Big Pharma," of course.
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Deborah Howlett
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  Mercola

Anyone who has been on a debating team knows that you can win or lose an argument on any topic depending on what information you promote. T took my puppy to the vet for vaccinating recently. I had her covered with zeolite to absorb any mercury or other heavy metals in the vaccine. The vet told me, that even though  the company had supposedly removed mercury, they were still supplying old stock with the mercury in it. Some lucky dip!  These companies have no conscience. I was also reading recently that antibiotics before vaccination, can make the child incapable of chelating out mercury naturally. By the way, they say they have removed the mercury but what other rubbish have they dumped in these vaccines to take its place?
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Deborah Howlett
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  Mercola

Yes, it would be interesting to know who funded these studies. Here is what the University of Calgary has to say about mercury.mercury damages brain tissue: University of Calgary

Mercury, even in the tiniest concentrations, inhibits nerve cell growth and atrophies the brain. This educational video from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, actually shows video and computer animation of how mercury damages neurons, causing lesions similar to those observed in Alzheimer's Disease.

http://movies.commons.ucalgary .ca/mercury/

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sobber
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same old song same old dance of big pharma cheaters and deceivers

  
  
New to Natural
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It's nice to see an article commenting on biased scientifc studies, however the title of this article is VERY misleading.  Hopefully those who believe in "big pharma" actually take the time to read the content.
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curious7
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