Source: Pulse
A bill introduced in the state Legislature would require that a mercury-free version of a vaccine be given whenever it is available to health care practitioners. If not available, then a vaccine containing mercury could be given. But if the vaccine contains more than a trace of mercury (more than one microgram), the practitioner must disclose that “this vaccine contains more than a trace amount of the mercury compound, thimerosal.” Thimerosal is a highly toxic substance.

At first glance, the proposal is disarmingly sensible and noncontroversial: It would simply establish a preference for mercury-free vaccines, when such an alternative is available. Mercury is found in “trace” amounts in most vaccines and currently about 90 percent of the flu shots given in Minnesota have a substantial amount of mercury—25 micrograms—in them; yet the Minnesota Department of Health promotes flu shots to pregnant women, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and now even children, without a warning to anyone about the mercury lurking in the shots.

Leading scientific researchers are appalled at the continued use of the thimerosal in vaccines and there is a consensus among leading independent mercury researchers that mercury in medicine (e.g. thimerosal) and in dentistry (e.g. the dental amalgam fillings) should be banned. Many of them have testified before Congress. But their statements have not been fully conveyed to the public by national or local media. Therefore the public and the Legislature remain ignorant of the menace posed by mercury in medicine and have been all too easily soothed by the reassurances of the Department of Health regarding the vaccine safety issues. Like the departments of health in every other state, the Minnesota Department of Health is tethered to its federal funding source, which is primarily the Center for Disease Control (CDC), based in Atlanta, Ga.

As a result, state health department priorities (and thinking) closely follows that of the CDC. And that is a big problem because, as a number of exposés reveal, the CDC has been found to have an overly cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, transcripts of secret meetings held between CDC officials, a vaccine safety researcher under contract with the CDC, and a drug company representative reveal that all of these players fully understood that it was the grand escalation of mandated childhood vaccinations that started in 1990 that gave rise to the explosive (ten-fold) increase of childhood autism during the 1990s. The entire public health establishment seems to be scripted to deny what the CDC clearly, but secretly, knew about the American autism scandal. [more]