Conspiracy theory, or increased awareness? Let's start with the THIMEROSAL issue: hear the controversy, see what each side has to say. Listen to this VERY reliable expert; I know which side has the ring of truth; what about you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Af0ar7gE4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ysbUM5jk54

Is the Dramatic Rise in Autism Connected to the Dramatic Rise in Children’s Required Vaccinations?

The Public Relations Machine for the Vaccine Complex

by Richard Gale and Gary Null

During the course of the CDC’s media war to push forward the vaccine industry’s greed for profit, science and reflective caution are being sacrificed. An important peer-reviewed study appearing in the June 2009 issue of Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry shows a causal relationship between the amounts of ethylmercury (thimerosal) found in inoculations for infants, when administered to monkeys, and cellular toxicity resulting in mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired oxidative reduction activity and degeneration and death in neuronal and fetal cells.[9] These are all indicative signs found in some ASD. But health officials prefer to ignore such results. For the future health of American children, the study’s findings arrive at a bad time when a recent Harvard study now reports autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) has risen to 1 in 91 people compared to the earlier 1 in 150 estimate. But since the study was sponsored by the CDC, the press release makes no indication that just maybe the over-vaccination of children with dozens of injections by the age of 5 years might be a causal factor behind this national epidemic of ASD and other neurological disorders.
During the course of interviewing many parents of autistic children for our documentaries Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made in the USA, the personal stories we filmed repeatedly were that of a once perfectly healthy and joyful child who, shortly after a vaccination or a series of injections, simply vanished from normality. However, national health policy today seems to have almost legislated by divine decree that there is no relationship between vaccine ingredients and autism. Besides, further independent research and first-hand personal stories would only interfere with the propaganda machine and the CDC’s “Seven Step Recipe for Generating Interest In, and Demand for, Flu Vaccination.”
Peter Doshi, while at Harvard in the mid-2000s, published a devastating study in the British Medical Journal that systematically unveils the flawed predictive science used to publicize our health agencies’ influenza statistics and mortality rates. His analysis shook up enough health authorities to warrant twelve scientists from the CDC and National Institutes of Health to unsuccessfully take him on. Now at MIT, Doshi continues his analysis of a century’s worth of influenza mortality data and government manipulation of influenza data, such as the annual figure of 36,000 influenza deaths we hear and read repeatedly.[1] Although this magical number was for all practical purposes alchemically conjured up via mathematical modeling back in 2003, it continues to be the most holy number in the CDC’s PR vocabulary every flu season. Doshi draws the conclusion, published in the American Journal of Public Health, that commercial interests are playing the role of science in both industry and government.[2]
Notes

1. Doshi, Peter. “Viral Marketing: The Selling of the Flu Vaccine.” Harpers Magazine. March. 2006.
2. “MIT grad student’s study challenges notions of pandemic flu” MIT Tech Talk. April 16, 2008.
3. Kalb, Claudia. “Stomping through a medical minefield” Newsweek. October 25, 2008.
4. “Majority of US parents wary of H1N1 vaccine: poll” Reuters Health. October 1, 2009.
5. http://www.mumsnet.com
6. Allday, Erin. “Swine flu draws a shrug, field poll shows.” SF Gate. October 6, 2009.
7. “Just 40 percent of adults ‘absolutely certain’ they will get H1N1 vaccine, survey finds” Science Daily. October 2, 2009.
8. “Grippe A: des blouses blanches anti-vaccin” SFR, France. September 18, 2009 info.sfr.fr/france/grippe-a-des-blouses-blanches-anti-vaccin,115335
9. Geier D, King P, Geier M. “Mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired oxidative-reduction activity, degeneration, and death in human neuronal and fetal cells induced by low level exposure to thimerosal and other metal compounds.” Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry. Volume 91, Issue 4, June 2009.
10. Manning, Anita. “Study: Annual flu death toll could be overstated.” USA Today. December 11, 2005.
11. Doshi, Peter. “Are US flu death figures more PR than science?” BMJ 2005; 331:1412 (10 December)
12. McNeil, Donald. “Don’t blame flu shots for all ills, officials say” New York Times. September 28, 2009.
13. McNeil, Donald. “Swine flu vaccinations start as officials attack myths.” New York Times. October 7, 2009.
14. Doshi, Peter. “Viral Marketing: The Selling of the Flu Vaccine.” Harpers Magazine. March. 2006.

This article originally appeared on GlobalResearch.ca.

October 19, 2009

Richard Gale is the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio Network and a former Senior Research Analyst in the genomic industry. Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest running public radio program on nutrition and natural health and a multi-award-winning director of progressive documentary films, including Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made in the USA.

 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/gale-null1.1.1.html


 On the other hand....

QUOTE BY THE "OTHER SIDE":

http://www.ktla.com/health/sns-health-swine-flu-vaccine-making,0,6766734.story

...The ingredient that anti-vaccine activists most question is thimerosal, a preservative added in trace amounts to keep vaccine in two-shot doses from deteriorating if stored while awaiting application.

Thimerosal contains ethyl mercury, and critics allege it can cause autism and other neurological disorders. But researchers say there is so little thimerosal in the vaccine that it poses no harm. Nevertheless, they have produced thimerosal-free, single-shot doses that can be ordered. Also, researchers say there is no thimerosal in the nasal spray.

"I continue to be amazed that people bring this issue up," said Paul Offit, a pediatrician and noted University of Pennsylvania vaccine researcher. "There have been six exhaustive studies (of a possible link between thimerosal and autism). ... They each came back with a definitive answer: No. Three other studies were done to see if thimerosal caused any signs of mercury poisoning. All three answered: No."...

READ HERE WHO Dr. PAUL OFFIT IS: they don't tell you that he HIMSELF IS A VACCINE MANUFACTURER, with millions of dollars of profits on the line!

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience