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Trace Amounts: Autism, Mercury, claim that the science is settled and there is no
and the Hidden Truth danger involved. Nothing else has been identified
Eric Gladen that explains all those associated factors.
Faze Films Production The video shows a brief scene which goes by
quickly and the people in it are not clearly identi-
Autism affected one in ten thousand children fied but I believe it was Matt Lauer interviewing
in the United States up through the 1980s. In the a doctor on the subject of vaccines. He is barely
1990s it jumped to one in five hundred. In 2000 able to make a point about the controversy sur-
it was one in two hundred fifty. In 2007 it was rounding vaccines before she starts babbling ir-
one in one hundred fifty. In 2014 it was one in rationally that there is no controversy. Mr. Lauer
sixty-eight. Some might consider this trend wor- is somewhat incredulous as he tries to point out
risome. they are, as they speak, arguing. How is that not
Eric Gladen, the producer of this video, gives controversy? But no, she insists there is no con-
viewers a tour of the disease from his first-hand troversy. Either she doesn’t understand what that
experience. He rather suddenly developed symp- word means or she has her head so deeply buried
toms of autism just after receiving a tetanus shot. in the sand (or money) that she can’t hear him.
This is unusual for a twenty-nine-year-old man. Medical authorities like her will warn pregnant
He set out to study what happened to him. After women against eating fish while urging them to
spending some time he came up with a number get that flu shot.
of factors that all pointed to one thing: mercury. We also see leading vaccine pusher Paul
It was shortly after thimerosol (a preserva- Offit’s smug little face making equally irrational
tive containing mercury) was invented that the noise. He demonstrates his complete ignorance of
first official case of autism was documented. what conflict of interest means when he claims
Eric’s case came just after a mercury-laden teta- to have none. He claims the increase in autism is
nus shot. With a mercury detox protocol he was due to better diagnosis but that doesn’t explain
able to recover, but then suffered a relapse after where all the thirty- to forty-year-old adults with
exposure to broken fluorescent light bulbs (which autism are hiding. He refers to a study by William
contain mercury). The sudden rise in autism Thompson of the CDC as definitively establish-
cases in the 1990s occurred just as the vaccine ing the safety of vaccines. In fact, that study
schedule was greatly expanded to include more explicitly excluded autism from consideration.
vaccines and the mercury that goes with them. Gladen makes it clear that this is not a movie
There are at least two notable groups in the about vaccines but about mercury. He makes the
United States that seem to be largely autism- point that mercury is only used as a preservative
free: the Amish and a group of many thousands and not functionally necessary for a vaccine.
Vaccine of homeschooled children. Both groups forego It is the cheapest option, which tells you what
manufacturers vaccines. Boys are several times more likely to mercury in vaccines is really about. It’s not the
be autistic than girls. Studies show that mercury greater good but the greater greed. Much more
are inspired combined with testosterone is much more toxic. could be said about vaccines but that is beyond
not by the Other studies have shown that some people have the scope of this movie and this review. Thumbs
greater good higher glutathione levels than others. Those with UP.
the higher levels are less likely to be autistic.
but by the One might argue that this is all circumstan-

greater greed. tial evidence. Perhaps so, but there is enough of
this evidence to make it impossible to justify the
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