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human waste out of streets via plumbing systems; in countries around the world whether the pop- Epidemics
regularly cleaning streets and stables of horse ulation had been vaccinated or not. As Dr. Glen
manure and human waste; improving roads so Dittman said in 1986, “It is pathetic and ludicrous declined
that meats, vegetables and raw milk could be dis- to say we vanquished smallpox with vaccines, throughout
tributed in cities while still fresh; and upgrading when only 10 percent of the population were ever the 1800s‚
water distribution systems to prevent bacterial vaccinated.”
contamination. long before
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All the old terror diseases of the plague, black BIG BUSINESS CREATES the advent of
death and cholera responded to these reforms, PRESSURE TO VACCINATE vaccinations.
and epidemics declined throughout the 1800s, The children of the United States represent
long before the advent of vaccination. Even the the most highly vaccinated population in the
CDC reported in 1999 that infectious diseases world. Millions of dollars are provided by the
declined in the past century due to improvements multi-national pharmaceuticals to create front
in sanitation, water and hygiene. Vaccination organizations like “Every Child by Two” and
against whooping cough, diphtheria, measles and “Immunization Action Coalition,” groups with
polio all occurred only at the very end of the life friendly, neutral names that disguise the pharma-
cycle of each epidemic, exposing the fallacy of ceutical funding behind their mandate to promote
the claim that vaccination ended epidemics. vaccination. Vaccines produce billions of dollars
The only exception to this decline in epi- a year for the drug companies, in part because the
demic disease is smallpox, which, contrary to all federal government funds massive vaccination
we have been taught, actually increased with the drives by buying vaccines with our tax dollars
advent of mandatory vaccination and decreased and then giving state health departments millions
only after an organized uprising by parents and of dollars with the goal of achieving 100 percent
doctors forced European governments to end their vaccine compliance. If they fail, the money can
mandatory vaccination programs. Even though be withdrawn from the state. With all this money
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the World Health Organization claims credit for available to state health authorities, enormous
the eradication of smallpox worldwide through pressure is then applied on the schools, which
vaccination, the fact is that smallpox declined in turn pressure parents by requiring proof of

MERCURY IN VACCINES AND AUTISM

The mercury-autism connection came to the public’s attention with the publication of “Deadly Immunity,” by Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr. in the July 2005 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, simultaneous with publication in Salon. Kennedy described
a Center for Disease Control and Prevention meeting held June 2000 at which CDC epidemiologist Tom Verstraeten
presented evidence to industry and government officials that thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative in vaccines, was
responsible for the epidemic of autism in America’s children. Instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid
the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the attendees spent the rest of the meeting discussing ways to cover up the damaging
data.
The CDC counters parental anger and negative publicity by citing studies that vindicate thimerosal, studies opponents
claim are doctored and highly suspect. “You couldn’t even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe,” says Dr. Boyd
Haley, one of the world’s authorities on mercury toxicity and head of the chemistry department at the University of Ken-
tucky. “It’s just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue,
the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject
it into an infant without causing damage.”
Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could
cause damage. Yet the lure of profits proved greater than the company’s concern for the public. Thimerosal enables the
pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses. The larger vials cost less to produce as
smaller, single-dose vials, and are needed to make in mass vaccination programs cost effective.
To read Kennedy’s article, see the July 14, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone. But getting thimerosal out of vaccines will not
completely solve the problem as vaccines contain numerous other toxins required for producing and preserving them.

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