By Dr. Matsen
In the late 1990s, Congressman Dan Burton’s two grandchildren suffered brain damage after receiving vaccines; one with epilepsy and the other autism. He led a Congressional investigation into what was in the vaccines that could damage children’s brains. A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (November 1999) showed that if an infant was given the recommended number of vaccines, by six months of age, he or she would have received mercury (in the form of thimerosal) that is 125 times above the set safety limit.
The US continued to use thimerosal in vaccines; the Center for Disease Control (CDC) claimed that vaccines containing thimerosal were safe for children. Several studies by a Danish research group supported the CDC’s claim—a 2003 study reported a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after mercury-based preservatives in vaccines were banned. This study concluded that mercury could therefore not be responsible for autism.
A recent article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the Huffingtion Post reports that a leading member of this Danish research team, Dr. Poul Thorsen, has recently disappeared along with almost 2 million dollars that he supposedly spent on research. Thorsen had a long-term relationship with the CDC; his research center has received more than 14 million dollars from the CDC since 2002.
Kennedy states in his article: “Leading independent scientists have accused CDC of concealing the clear link between the dramatic increases in mercury-laced child vaccinations beginning in 1989 and the epidemic of autism, neurological disorders and other illnesses affecting every generation of American children since. Questions about Thorsens’s scientific integrity may finally force CDC to rethink the vaccine protocols since most of the other key pro vaccine studies cited by CDC rely on the findings of Thorsen’s research group. These include oft referenced research articles published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the New England Journal of Medicine and others. The validity of all these studies is now in question.”
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