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FDA with their own scientific findings is allowing the fox to guard the 2001, they declared that the manufacturing of
hen house. thimerosal-containing vaccines had ceased. In
In 2014, the global vaccine market was worth over thirty-two billion reality, some of these vaccines were changed
dollars. According to Technavio, one of the leading technology research to “low-mercury.” Because childhood vaccines
companies in the world, the vaccine market will be worth sixty-one billion were deemed “essentially” mercury-free at this
dollars a year by 2020. With over two hundred seventy new “therapeutic” point, health officials were quick to assert that
and “preventable” vaccines in the pipeline, companies are in a race to autism was not linked to mercury as autism
get their vaccines approved. rates continued to increase. What they didn’t
In addition to the FDA not doing its own studies, this governmental tell the public was that during the so-called
regulatory agency recklessly allows pharmaceutical companies to use phase-out period, the CDC began recommend-
another vaccine, an aluminum adjuvant or a combination of both as their ing mercury-containing influenza vaccines to
“placebo.” This is beyond sloppy science. As a result, there is no credible pregnant women. They also added four doses
vaccine safety or efficacy science used by the FDA or CDC when they of the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which
make their vaccine recommendations. has a high aluminum content, to the childhood
Furthermore, for years pharmaceutical companies and public health immunization schedule in 2000, and two doses
authorities have been well aware of the dangers associated with vaccine of the aluminum-containing hepatitis A vaccine
adjuvants and preservatives. However, they have chosen to withhold, in 2005 (Table 1). These increases led to a 25
hide and deny this information, gravely and inexcusably endangering percent increased uptake of aluminum for babies
the public. Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, a pioneer in vaccine safety research by 2005. Additionally, in 2001, the CDC began
at the University of British Columbia, has published extensively on alu- recommending pregnant women receive the
minum adjuvants and vaccine adverse reactions. In 2011, Tomljenovic aluminum-containing pertussis vaccine (Tdap),
1,2
provided evidence suggesting that health authorities and vaccine manu- despite the fact that studies show that aluminum
facturers made (as summarized by the reporter) “continuous efforts to crosses the placenta and accumulates in fetal
withhold critical data on severe adverse reactions and contraindication tissue.
to vaccinations to both parents and health practitioners in order to reach Perhaps the most shocking recommendation
overall vaccination rates, which they deemed were necessary for ‘herd is the influenza vaccine, as the vast majority of
immunity.’” (Herd immunity is a theory that has never been scientifically these vaccines contain 25 micrograms (mcg) of
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tested, and the numbers believed needed to be vaccinated to achieve herd thimerosal per dose. Unsuspecting parents who
protection are a guesstimate, rather than based on science.) take their children to be vaccinated according to
schedule will most likely submit their children
THE THIMEROSAL EXAMPLE to nineteen doses of mercury-containing influ-
A great example of this type of deception is the story of mercury (thi- enza vaccines between six months and eighteen
merosal) in vaccines. As parents became more hesitant and vocal during years of age. In other words, today’s children
the late 1990s, the CDC began a highly publicized campaign announcing receive nearly as much mercury as prior to 2001
that they were “phasing out” mercury from U.S. childhood vaccines. By and they receive 25 percent more aluminum.
Although the FDA and CDC vehemently deny
TABLE 1. a correlation, could this be why one in two
Aluminum exposures in early childhood from recommended vaccines children in the U.S. is chronically ill, one in six
suffers from a neurodevelopmental disorder and
VACCINE ALUMINUM CONTENT VACCINE SCHEDULE one in thirty-six is autistic?
Hep B 250mcg x 3 doses Birth, 2, 6 months
DTaP 625mcg x 4 doses 2, 4, 6, 15 months
PCV 125mcg x 4 doses 2, 4, 6, 12 months ALUMINUM AND MERCURY:
Hib 225mcg x 3 doses 2, 4, 12 months SYNERGISTIC TOXICITY
Hep A 250mcg x 2 doses 12, 18 months Because of work done by Dr. Boyd Haley,
former professor of medicinal chemistry and
SOURCE: The vaccine manufacturers’ product inserts and the CDC’s chairman of the chemistry department at the
2016 childhood vaccination schedule. © NZM. University of Kentucky, we know that the com-
Note: Aluminum is not present in influenza, polio, or live viral vaccines, bination of mercury and aluminum causes syn-
such as measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chicken pox), shingles and ergistic toxicity. In 2005, Dr. Haley published
rotavirus. a study in which he investigated combining

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