by Daphne64 » Fri 08 Aug 2008, 14:31:21
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukey', 'I')t's amazing though. The TV says they have removed it, the FDA says otherwise. Who will Americans believe ? That's right, THE TV WINS AGAIN.
Some of it is that an average parent or parent-to-be just doesn't know to look deeper. My older kid got every required and recommended vaccine until 18 months of age. (She is almost 8 now). I didn't know to be sceptical and look closer.
Even when she had some problems I didn't know to look closer until a chance meeting with another parent clued me in that speech apraxia was related to vaccines and that the vaccines given until about 2001 had 50 to 100 times the safe amount of mercury. After that meeting I probably spent over 200 hours looking at available research, including reading about 60% of the 2004 IOM report on vaccines. (Anyone who has time - take a look at that monstrosity. They accepted the reports I noted in the earlier post, but completely ignored all biological studies showing the mechanism by which mercury harms tissue and organism, and also dismissed any statistical studies that came up with wrong conclusion).
As a result of treatments outside the mainstream, and the dumb luck that she wasn't too badly messed up in the first place, my older girl passes for today's normal - hyper and impulsive, but otherwise functioning pretty well. We still chelate her with DMSA.
Parents with reading and comprehension abilities above an 11th grade level often will educate themselves - if they can bring themselves to admit to helping poison their kids.
The whole vaccine thing was a definite red pill experience for me. I had about 50% trust in the US government before. Now it's down to under 1% - tracking the approximate percentage of congresspeople who will stick their necks out to do the right thing.