US News & World Report: Thimerosal in vaccines until 2003

[Guest guest]

It is nice to see a

US publication get this correct for once:

“Since one

theory is that autism can be caused by exposure to mercury, a toxic metal that

was used until 2003 as a preservative in early childhood vaccines, it makes sense

to think chelation might help.”

Also, this is a

fairly interested and well researched piece on recent autism news, from the

magazine:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-parenting/2008/7/11/autism-and-a-link-to-brain-development.html

I suspect that Dr Healy, as health editor,

is having some influence over there

DK

[Guest guest]

Kirby talked about this study at his presentation. Apparently the

rats which had no metal burden and were chelated did not receive the

standard replacement minerals that a child would in treatment which

could account for the rats' impairment.

>

> " In February 2007, a study showed that giving chelation to rats who

> weren't suffering from heavy-metal poisoning caused permanent

cognitive

> impairment. Whoa. That sent NIMH back to more risk-benefit analysis. "

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> Whoa...isn't that the appropriate reaction with animal studies when

> things go awry...aye, but noticable absent are all the whoas from the

> thimerosal studies on rats. The rats on thimerosal demonstrated

> autistic like behaviors...but no whoa there....just more studies

needed.

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> Such a double standard.

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