Apparently I, along with practically everyone else on the planet, was wrong about Mercury.
Vladimir Putin “Blinkinblogs is my favorite read with glass of Vodka.”
Barack OBAMA “Blinkinblogs? Never heard of them.”
Mercury is Good for You!
Vladimir Putin “Blinkinblogs is my favorite read with glass of Vodka.”
Barack OBAMA “Blinkinblogs? Never heard of them.”
Apparently I, along with practically everyone else on the planet, was wrong about Mercury.
Seema Mathur over-summarizes the study. The way she reports it leaves one believing we should give our kids mercury lollipops.
The straight dope is as follows: there is absolutely no evidence of mercury preservatives causing health problems from vaccines given to children. Additionally, the majority of anti-vaccine groups are chaired by people with the advertised qualifications of “angry parent” or “parent of down’s syndrome child”. They are a complete joke. The Lancelot (UK) and the AMA just completed an array of longitudinal pediatric studies and guess what… no link to autism (shock!). A kid would need multiple shots a day for the extent of their childhood years for the about of mercury to exceed toxic thresholds.
How come these same parent’s aren’t throwing fits when their teenagers are served tuna-salad sandwiches in High School? Tuna has much more mercury than “mercury-ladened” vaccinations. So we really should join the “a Tuna Sandwich turned my kid into a Tard” Group today!
Parents of unimmunized children rely on the vast majority of kids who do get their shots, subconsciously relying on the limited degree of polio, measles, chicken pox or other pathogens found among so many protected kids. However, this strategy is failing given the increased numbers of (otherwise intelligent) parents adopting the no-vaccine line and the increasing circulation of new antigens (e.g.; 2009 measles outbreak in public school systems across 4 states). As a matter of concequence, the CDC is reporting that they are now seeing outbreaks that look different, concentrated among intentionally unimmunized people.
Let’s hope this anti-innoculation trend dies a smallpox-like death. I propose to make it a federal crime under child neglect and abuse statutes against parents who deny their kids safe modern medicine (such as proper vaccination). Very similar to the statutes that allow prosecution of parents who withhold medical care to children based on religious beliefs. The kids don’t have a say… yet their parent’s have no problem “rolling the dice” on their behalf in the face of some true pathogenic killers.
And I just found the flagrant way in which this topic was reported to be amusing.
LOL! I did too. Additionally, I thought I’d “punch-up” my response hoping someone would call me an “arse”.