Mercury is not used in vaccines. A preservative that has mercury in the molecule is frequently used as a preservative yes, it's an antibiotic. Saying vaccines have mercury is like saying salt has sodium.
Eat sodium, you die. Eat table salt you don't.
Eat mercury you die. Eat Mercury((o-carboxyphenyl)thio)ethyl sodium salt you don't.
I can't take anybody seriously that doesn't get that basic fact.
That doesn’t make it any less dangerous. Inorganic and organic mercuric species have their own toxicities, and thiomersal is metabolized into both alkyl species (ethyl, methyl) and inorganic mercury. Mind you, I don’t think mercury is driving autism. Babies don’t metabolize xenobiotics very well, including acetaminophen. The inorganic mercuric(II) chloride produced from thiomersal is a potent inhibitor of phenol sulfotransferases, which babies depend on to detoxify the acetaminophen they’re given as a prophylactic to control the fever. Maybe autism rates are increasing each generation because the children are inheriting under-performing sulfotransferase genes from parents who have been repeatedly exposed to mercuric species and have adapted epigenetic inefficiencies which they passed to their children.
The only time in the history of the US that autism rates decreased was during the Tylenol recall during the 1980s pill poisoning deaths.
The only time in the history of the US that autism rates decreased was during the 1980s Tylenol recall following the pill tampering deaths.
That may be true, but I'm inclined to believe its due to other factors. For one, the statistics now are based on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and that encompasses a few other disorders that in the past wouldn't have been considered autism like aspbergers and pervasive developmental disorder. In addition, awareness for ASD has grown significantly since the 90's. Back in the 50's and 60's most people would have probably just beaten out of their kids or kept them out of the public eye.
I'd honestly bet my money on the culprit being the fact that infants that would have been nonviable in the past are now surviving through advanced medical practices. Babies that never would have lived to see the light of day are now kept alive and the side effects from these pregnancies cause stunted brain development that result in ASD.
I'm no doctor though, and I'm not confident enough to say that it cannot be a pharmaceutical issue. Just my two cents.
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PepeFarmRemembers ago
Mercury is not used in vaccines. A preservative that has mercury in the molecule is frequently used as a preservative yes, it's an antibiotic. Saying vaccines have mercury is like saying salt has sodium.
Eat sodium, you die. Eat table salt you don't. Eat mercury you die. Eat Mercury((o-carboxyphenyl)thio)ethyl sodium salt you don't.
I can't take anybody seriously that doesn't get that basic fact.
getshanked ago
That doesn’t make it any less dangerous. Inorganic and organic mercuric species have their own toxicities, and thiomersal is metabolized into both alkyl species (ethyl, methyl) and inorganic mercury. Mind you, I don’t think mercury is driving autism. Babies don’t metabolize xenobiotics very well, including acetaminophen. The inorganic mercuric(II) chloride produced from thiomersal is a potent inhibitor of phenol sulfotransferases, which babies depend on to detoxify the acetaminophen they’re given as a prophylactic to control the fever. Maybe autism rates are increasing each generation because the children are inheriting under-performing sulfotransferase genes from parents who have been repeatedly exposed to mercuric species and have adapted epigenetic inefficiencies which they passed to their children.
The only time in the history of the US that autism rates decreased was during the Tylenol recall during the 1980s pill poisoning deaths.
sknabcv2 ago
That may be true, but I'm inclined to believe its due to other factors. For one, the statistics now are based on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and that encompasses a few other disorders that in the past wouldn't have been considered autism like aspbergers and pervasive developmental disorder. In addition, awareness for ASD has grown significantly since the 90's. Back in the 50's and 60's most people would have probably just beaten out of their kids or kept them out of the public eye.
Regardless, there does seem to be an increase. My theory though, is that rather than being because of vaccinations or tylenol, its because our infant mortality has fallen so much. There's a host of factors involving high risk pregnancies that are significantly associated with an increased chance of developing autism.
I'd honestly bet my money on the culprit being the fact that infants that would have been nonviable in the past are now surviving through advanced medical practices. Babies that never would have lived to see the light of day are now kept alive and the side effects from these pregnancies cause stunted brain development that result in ASD.
I'm no doctor though, and I'm not confident enough to say that it cannot be a pharmaceutical issue. Just my two cents.