Mercury And Autism-Now Heads Should Roll

I recently made a decision to update this Blog usually only one day a week, toward the end of the week, in order to make it worthwhile to log onto it on a regular basis, as otherwise it would be a matter of one or two posts a day on the average. However, there are situations that cry out for exceptions, and the Tim Russert interview yesterday on Meet The Press is one such example. One of the guests was Mr. David Kirby, author of the recently released book Evidence Of Harm, which confronts the situation of the increase in instances of autism among children with the possibility that this can at least in part be explained by the presence in childrens vaccines of the chemical Thimerosol, which contains the element Mercury, as a preservative.

An empty suit whose name I don't remember right now (nor do I really care to) appearred with Mr. Kirby as an obvious shill for the pharmaceutical industry, and explained that the results of scientific testing by the CDC (Centers For Disease Control) found no evidence to substantiate this charge. He further stated that the definition for autism had been significantly broadened-yet provided no statistical evience to support this outrageous claim. In real cases of autism, he insisted, there has been no real increase. And what cases are verifiable, there is no evidence of a direct link to Thimerosol as a component of childrens vaccinations. It could as easily be explained by the presence of pollutants in the atmosphere, for example, including mercury.

But well, well, well, what do you know, it turns out that all the relevant studies conducted by the CDC have been turned over to the HMO's. Therefore, they are no longer public documents, therefore they are no longer availiable for viewing, not even by the media by way of the Freedom Of Information Act. This despite the fact that the CDC still obviously retains copies of the studies. What an outragous and obvious abuse.

There should be an investigation, with a special prosecutor. If it does indeed turn out that the presence of Thimerosol has been a factor in the increased rates of autism, the families affected should be immediately compensated, and what few vaccines still contain the product should be immediately pulled from the shelves and recalled. And beginning immediately, there should be a total cessation of any further importations of this dubious product to foreign nations. What good is it doing the U.S. reputation, which is all ready on life support, and the health of the Third World, when the potential cure for infectious diseases might cause permanent brain damage to a population that is all ready weakened by the affliction of malnourishment and increased susceptibility to not only diseases, but the harmful side-effects of harmful medications, due to the weakened state of their own immune systems? Thus, the increased appearrance of autism in our population might be negligible in comparison to what may occur in Third World countries whose populations are significantly weakened.

Anybody who made it through Junior Chemistry in high school should know better than to suppose any vaccine containing mercury as a preservative would be safe for children, when it is present in those vaccines in amounts that would be dangerous, at more than ten times the safety level for an adult. What could they have possibly been thinking? If you handle a thermometer, and it breaks, and the mercury spills out onto your hands, and you have a cut, and the mercury thus gets in your bloodstream, it can make you sick. It can cause brain damage. it can cause death in high enough doses. But they put it in vaccines? For children? And even ship it overseas, to give to children in the third world. What an outrage.

Autism is particularly horrid. It is the result of an inflammation of certain parts of the brain, in which a person born with it, or later developing it, becomes totally disfunctional in most areas of life. They have absolutely no ability to relate to others on a social level, for the most part, and are incapable of caring for themselves on a practical manner. Although it is true that they might develop an astounding capacity for memorization in certain limited areas. For example, they might become mathematical geniuses, or have an amazing capacity for remembering meaningless, or trivial, statistics. But they may remain totally retarded, and at times near to unteachable, at anything else. It almost makes you wonder if this were done on purpose as a means of farming and cultivating specific potential geniuses in mathematics or physics or chemistry. As bizzarre and unreasonable as this might sound, it would not surprise me. Besides, there had to be a reason for using such a poisonous and dangerous element as mercury in childhood vaccines. What could it possibly have been? Were they just playing the odds, and hoping no one would notice? For no other reason than Thimerosol was the best preservstive they could find, therefore they could make and/or save millions, or billions, of dollars?

It's time now for people to really start getting pissed off about this situation, to the point I would go so far as to suggest a revolution. Not a violent revolution, mind you, but a gamble nonetheless. If you have children, simply refuse to get them vaccinated. If enough people did this, and stated they would continue to do so until the government released the CDC data on Thimerosol, as should have been done immediately by the way, you wouldn't have to worry too much about putting your children at risk. The government then would have no choice but to release the data. Or maybe not. Maybe they would still refuse. Which would tell you all you would need to know. If they are that desperate to hide the truth, it must be bad. Real bad.

Of coure, I know that kind of revolution is not possible, as it would take huge numbers of parents to go along with it, and I doubt that many parents would be willing to take that kind of risk. Nor do I want the pharmaceutical companies to go bankrupt, or be forced out of business. But they should be taken over. The pharmaceutical Industry is one business that should be completely nationalized. For too long have those people used their clout to rip off the people who depends on them for their health care needs, using crooked politicians to acomplish the deed.

But it would be just as bad to leave the companies in the hands of the same politicians, and the government bureaucracies that helped to create the disaster American health care has become. Therefore, the only sensible solution is for the government to seize the assets of the pharmaceutical industry, and sell them to the highest bidder, while at the same time establishing a government oversight committee, through Congress, with a sunshine clause built in for state governments and the media.

That way, the families of victims of this shameful scandal can be compensated, and at the same time some kind of sensible national health care that is progressive, of high quality, and affordable, in addition to being equally availiable to all segments of society, can finally be implemented.

This might be the proverbial silver lining. The fact that the pharmaceutical giants may have by their very greed and outright vicous treachery given us the justification and the not only legal right but obligation to do just this. At the same time, there should be criminal charges brought to bear on those who are responsible for implementing this horrible policy. And, if there are any who should be found knowingly guilty of purposely being responsible for this action, knowing full well what the possible consequences might be, in addition to being guilty of trying to cover up the evidence of harm after it became obvious, then long term prison sentences would be more than appropriate. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, the death penalty may in some cases be justified.