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Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines
T Murphy writes "Although in the draft stages, a treaty being pushed by the United Nations Environment Programme has a blanket ban on mercury. While the ban would stop the use of mercury in paints or pesticides, it currently has no exemptions to allow for other small uses, such as in thermisol, which is used as a preservative in vaccines. The next meeting to discuss this treaty will be at the end of October."
to really screw things up, we have the UN.
Dosage is absolutely not the key. Mercury accumulates. It doesn't go away.
When you put it in a person in a "safe" form, you have to be sure it will stay in that form forever.
Using mercury when alternatives are available is about as smart as using leaded paint and gasoline, or going for a romp in that fluffy, itchy stuff in the attic.
Okay, so in the first half of your post, you've just effectively taken the position that nobody should ever ingest anything because it may not be perfectly safe
Wrong. Things like wheat and peanuts are food items, so there's actually a reason to eat them, like any other food item. Same goes for milk: it's nutritious for part of the population, even though another part of the population can't handle it (those with lactose intolerance).
Mercury isn't a food, it's a poison. Just like lead, there's no use for it in the body, unlike certain other trace elements like zinc. There's nothing good about mercury, from a biological point-of-view. The less of it in your body, the better. Injecting yourself with it is pure insanity, especially when alternatives exist.
I can find loads of anecdotal evidence for Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and El Chupa Cabra.
That's LA chupacabra, not El, and I'm pretty sure it's already been found. Except it wasn't a big monster, it was some dog with mange or something like that. And there is indeed evidence for Nessie, and IIRC the people who made that photo admitted later that they fabricated it.
you do long term studies following the health of a sampling of children and look for correlations. Been done, and guess what- found nothing.
Well of course you found nothing since your sample size was too small. If you only look at 100 kids, and the condition only occurs in 0.1% of the population, you're probably not going to see it. But 0.1% of the population is about 7 million people worldwide.
For instance, diethyl mercury is known to be one of the most dangerous neurotoxin known to mankind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylmercury). The consensus on the mechanism of action for this compound is that it's the oxidation state II mercury itself that is neurotoxic, but it's the alkyl groups that help it go across the blood-brain barrier. Look up the structure of thiomersal. It is an organic mercury compound that has an alkyl group directly on mercury, thereby giving access to the brain directly.
Similar compound, dimethyl mercury is also very notorious for its neurotoxicity. I do research in organic chemistry for living and a fellow organic chemist one time accidentally dropped a drop of Dimethyl mercury on her hand. It went through the gloves that she was wearing and onto her skin. Within several hours she was dead from what the doctors described in layman terms as "her brain melted". It is scary stuff. Some things about chemicals you don't necessarily have to do human clinical trial to predict that it'd be dangerous. If you have trained eyes you can just look at the chemical strcuture and predict its toxicity. However, as the good Book says, the love of money is a root of all evil. Once a big pharma company starts liking using a compound, they'll push for research that says it's safe even if it's not. That's just the way it is sadly.
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