New Study Further Disproves Mercury-Vaccine Link To Autism

A Fatal Assumption

By Michael A. Gruttadauria, DC, DACAN

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new study provides more proof that childhood vaccines with mercury as a preservative -- no longer on the market -- did not cause autism, researchers reported on Monday.

The findings came from a look at children diagnosed with autism in California from 1995 to 2007. It found that the number of autism cases continued to rise through that period even though the preservative thimerosal -- nearly half of which is made of ethylmercury -- was removed from most vaccines in 2001.

The data "do not show any recent decrease in autism in California despite the exclusion of more than trace levels of thimerosal from nearly all childhood vaccines (and) do not support the hypothesis that that exposure(to it) during childhood is a primary cause of autism," the study concluded.

WOW!

What kind of flawed reasoning is that? Do they think we are stupid? Despite the mercury (thimerosal) being removed from vaccines, the rate of autism continues to increase. Therefore, via deductive reasoning, since mercury was removed from vaccines, and the autism numbers continue to grow, it can’t be the vaccines causing autism! Here is where the flaw in the argument shows up: Because of the incredibly neuron-toxic nature of mercury, it was always assumed that mercury in the vaccines was the culprit in vaccine causing autism. (That may not be accurate)

No one can deny the concomitant rise in autism and the increase in the vaccination schedule in the early 1980s. The assumption that mercury was to blame may be a fatal assumption. Mercury can play a role in the incidence of autism being up, but with this new study, the CDC now has ammunition against the vaccine-autism link. What if it was not the mercury in the vaccine, but the overwhelming impact that 36 vaccines have on a developing child’s brain?

Fundamentally, I tend to think that autistic children have a problem of their immune system, which is the “faulty immune regulation.” Hence they have abnormal immune reactions to measles virus and/or MMR vaccine” Vijendra K. Singh, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Neuroimmunology, Utah State University,
an international expert in the autoimmune causes of autism:


Here are some real vaccine facts:
1. Studies have shown that as families improve their living conditions, hygiene, nutrition, literacy and education, the risk of life-threatening acute infectious, inflammatory diseases very much decreases. Families with poor living conditions, hygiene, nutrition and literacy would generally be most likely to benefit from vaccinations. Families with good living conditions, hygiene, nutrition and education probably would benefit from vaccinations very little or not at all. Individuals with a tendency to allergic or auto-immune diseases are likely to be harmed by vaccinations. (1,2,3)

2. Side effects of vaccination are usually allergic or auto-immune inflammatory reactions caused by the shift of the immune system’s reactivity from the Th1 side to the Th2 side. Modern medicine is just beginning to recognize this. (4)

3. Modern medicine has not scientifically measured the risk/benefit ratio of any vaccine. Research into the risks of vaccines is very inadequate, according to two comprehensive reports on vaccines by the U.S. Institute of Medicine in 1991 and 1994. (5)

4. The CDC has never proposed, designed, funded or carried out a single clinical study on autism. (6)

5. For the thirty years after autism was identified, it grew at the constant rate of 1-in-10,000 babies born. The number of autistic infants only grew if the population did. So when my generation had one or two vaccines in the 1960's, the rate of children having autism stayed the same. That would change, however, not from an increase in population, but due to the growing number of vaccines given to babies, most of which contained thimerosal.

In 1978, the CDC added the triple shot MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) to the growing baby immunization program, starting a frightening, irreversible, and detrimental trend: Doctors began giving more vaccines, at younger ages, for many diseases to which babies wouldn't be exposed until later in life (hepatitis , with the new vaccination protocols all blessed and sanctioned by the CDC. None of the new baby vaccines was backed by a single study on its individual safety; nor was a single study done on the safety of the multiple vaccinations now given.

By 1978, the rate of autism had increased four times, going from the previous rate of 1-in-10,000 to 1-in-2,500. Over the next ten years, the autism rate would climb again to 1-in-1,000 in 1991, when the DTP triple shot and hepatitis B were added to the vaccine chart, both of which contained thimerosal.

By the end of 2000, the rate mushroomed yet again to 1-in-250. Not only did the population of ASD children grow, so did the total number of vaccines given to babies, from about ten in 1983 to 22 vaccines or more today. The result of this ill-advised, force-fed mandate has been catastrophic. The rate of children born with ASD has increased again to 1-in-150.


In short, the occurrence of autism has increased at a rate of 1,700% over the past twenty years or more than 6,000% over the past thirty years. Meanwhile, the U.S. population during the past twenty years has grown from 236 to 300 million people, or at the rate of 21%. (7)


Are we making a huge mistake and ignoring what seems to be common sense? Vaccinating our children right now amidst an epidemic of Autistic Spectrum Disorders is like playing Russian Roulette.

When my daughter was born, my wife and I discussed vaccinations. All of our nieces and nephews had them with no apparent problems. We went ahead and allowed her to receive the vaccines; she was diagnosed with PDD-nos at 18 months. Our son was born two years later, and we were determined not to make any mistakes. We delayed the vaccination schedule and split up the dosages. He too was diagnosed with PDD-nos at 18 months. Our newest addition has had NO VACCINATIONS and, at 13 months, he is by far our most neurologically advanced child. He was walking and babbling at 10 months with great eye contact, connected to us, no sensory issues and is really in tune. Now, can you tell me that the vaccinations play no role in the etiology of Autistic Spectrum Disorders?



References:
1 McKeown, T. The Modern Rise of Population. New York: Academic Press, 1976.
2 McKeown, T. The Role Of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis? New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1979.
3 Sagan, L.A. The Health of Nations. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1987.
4 Rook, G.A.W., Zumla, A. "Gulf War Syndrome: Is It Due to a Systemic Shift in Cytokine Balance Towards a Th2 Profile?" The Lancet 349 (1997): 1831-1833.
5 Robin, Eugene, M.D. "Some Hidden Dimensions of the Risk/Benefit Value of Vaccine" from the First International Public Conference on Vaccination. Alexandria, Virginia September 1997.
6 F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP - Studies that Count, Studies that Don’t
7 James Ottar Grundvig - The Sting of Thimerosal in Autism -The Epoch Times


Michael A. Gruttadauria, DC, DACAN is a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist with a practice focused on Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Plainview NY. He is also the father of two children diagnosed on the spectrum. He can be reached at 516-470-9525 or online at www.lispectrum.com