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In the year before COVID-19, aside from mandates for children, fear mongering was the communication of choice to push people into vaccinating against measles, mumps and rubella and all types of other diseases and conditions. Media outlets were publishing angry editorials, spewing hate against parents who chose not to vaccinate their children and blaming them for others getting measles.1
Some state and federal legislators were piggybacking on this rhetoric, proposing severe restrictions on the medical vaccine exemption and eliminating conscientious belief exemptions in state vaccine laws.2 Throughout 2019, bills were proposed to either remove or restrict exemptions.
One of the most striking was in New York, which in a single day eliminated the religious exemption to vaccination, with no public hearings.3 Soon after, New York state health officials created stricter rules so doctors needed to complete a form giving specific medical reasons for a vaccine exemption.4
The National Vaccine Information Center found as of June 2019, “there have been no cases of measles reported among children attending school with religious exemptions” There are conflicting reports in media sources as Vox describes a cluster of measles infection in a close knit community in New York in April 2019.5,6 Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center commented on the way the bill was passed, saying:
“This new law, which was rammed through the New York legislature without public participation violates the human right to hold religious and spiritual beliefs that honor and protect bodily integrity.
When a government has to resort to forcing parents to choose between violating their religious beliefs and conscience or giving their children a school education, that government has chosen to rule by fear and coercion and will lose the respect and trust of the people.”
In 2010, a lawsuit was filed against Merck drug company by two infectious disease experts who were previous employees of the company. They said that Merck lied about the effectiveness of the MMR II vaccine, which is supposed to immunize against measles, mumps and rubella. The doctors reported that the efficacy of the mumps portion of the vaccine had been artificially inflated.
To date, the lawsuit has not been resolved.7 The whistleblowers, Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, allege several fraudulent tactics were used with the aim to "report efficacy of 95% or higher regardless of the vaccine's true efficacy."8
Artificially inflating the efficacy percentage has enabled Merck to maintain a monopoly over the mumps vaccine market. In 2015, the company was accused of stonewalling the process, which attorneys for Krahling and Wlochowski outlined in a letter to the judge. When writing about Merck’s refusal to reveal the actual efficacy of their mumps vaccine, they said:9
“Yet, Merck refuses to answer any questions on the subject, instead hiding behind a facade of confusion and obfuscation as to what efficacy means. Merck does so even though efficacy is a common term used throughout the industry to identify how well a vaccine works. It is also a term Merck has, until now, freely used throughout these proceedings to describe how well its vaccine works.
Either Merck knows the current efficacy of its mumps vaccine, or it does not. If it does, it should be required to answer Interrogatory No. 1 and the identified RFAs as posed. If it does not know the current efficacy, it should be required to answer the Interrogatory and RFAs accordingly.
Whichever the case, Merck should not be permitted to raise as one of its principal defenses that its vaccine has a high efficacy, which is accurately represented on the product's label, but then refuse to answer what it claims that efficacy actually is.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there were 1,282 cases of measles in 2019, all of which were attributed to the wild type D8 or B3. However, 2019 was highly unusual as the number was more than triple that of eight of the previous nine years, and it was nearly double the other. Since 2010, in most years fewer than 200 cases of measles have been reported each year.10
Similarly, in another report it was noted that the number of annual cases of mumps had spiked, suggesting the strength of vaccine-induced immunity had weakened.11 The authors of one study that was recently published in The Lancet performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies published in English from the inception of three databases — PubMed, Web of Science and Embase — through December 31, 2019.12
The researchers identified 3,615 studies, of which 62 met their eligibility criteria. A commentary published in the same issue described the study as a meta-analysis on the “overall data related to the immunogenicity and antibody persistence after immunization with trivalent MMR vaccines.”13
The researchers believe their data “provides estimates of primary and secondary vaccine failure.”14 The researchers hope the information revealed from their meta-analysis will help public health experts identify groups of individuals who are vulnerable to infection. This may help to guide future vaccination strategies.15
However, as the commentary pointed out, a reduced number of natural vaccine boosts from exposure to people with measles acquired naturally will stop with universal vaccination. This also could exacerbate the problems with weakening immunity following the MMR vaccine.
The authors of the commentary point out there is no standardization for serological tests for immunity, calling for a “gold-standard cutoff level of seropositivity” to allow accurate comparisons between labs.16
This would have made it challenging for the researchers to compare results from data published in 1900, which is how far Web of Science says they cover science publications.17 Embrace covers research from 194718 and PubMed beginning from the 1940s,19 spanning over 60 years of medical and technological advancement.
The analysis included studies whose authors had only measured humoral immunity, not cellular immunity. This could also underestimate the real level of protection from vaccines:20
“In this sense, low antibody concentrations do not necessarily correspond to a lack of protection. However, these are the best data available so far and, if correctly used, could be very useful in the assessment of future public health decisions.”
Humoral immunity and cell mediated immunity differ in their mechanisms of action. Humoral immunity is fast acting, using antibodies produced against protein antigens, whereas cell mediated immunity destroys pathogens and microorganisms inside an infected cell.21
As I’ve covered recently in “Vaccine Debate: Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz,” 1 in 40 people who get vaccinated will be injured by the medication, as opposed to the commonly cited 1 in 1 million people the media likes to report. So, to recap:
I will preface this with my belief that even one death is one too many. Yet, it seems that not all medical experts agree that mumps and measles are dangerous conditions. In fact, some don’t have a consistent message for their patients.
For instance, Penn Medicine recommends vaccinations because “If untreated, mumps can be fatal. However, deaths caused by mumps are very rare.”22 The same group also says “Mumps will eventually go away — typically in about two to three weeks — but there’s no medication or treatment to cure it.”
These two contradictory statements, which appear within a paragraph of each other, beg the question — if the condition is truly fatal when left untreated and there's no medication or treatment to cure it, then how can they say it can be treated to prevent death? If it sounds confusing, it is, especially when you consider that Penn Medicine also warns that people should be monitored for complications, such as meningitis.
However, unlike meningitis that is a complication of an ear or sinus infection, pneumonia or respiratory infections triggered by bacteria entering the bloodstream,23 mumps is a viral infection. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control24 says unlike bacterial meningitis, “Mumps meningitis is a mild and often asymptomatic disease with complete recovery.”
According to data published by the CDC in 2019, the last recorded measles-associated death in the U.S. was in 2015.25 Even before the vaccine, the annual death toll from the measles in the U.S. was from 400 to 500 of the estimated 3 to 4 million cases of measles each year.
Any death, for any reason is tragic. However, after reviewing the statistics, the question remains — is it reasonable to mandate a vaccine for diseases with exceptionally low mortality rates, thus increasing the risk of adverse events for millions of children after exposure to the vaccine?
Disabilities, death, chronic poor health and brain damage are just some of the adverse events children experience after vaccination. For a deeper discussion of the public health ramifications of vaccines, see “Measles Propaganda Can Have Dire Public Health Ramifications.” In it is a short interview with a mother of three whose son is brain damaged following his infant vaccinations.
Public concern over the safety of vaccination is indeed growing. This is reflected in the number who are hesitant to receive a new coronavirus vaccine, even if it's free. In a recent USA Today/Suffolk poll, two-thirds of U.S. voters said they don’t plan to get the vaccine when it becomes available, and 25% said they will never get it.26
This builds on what others were already finding, as Science magazine reported in June 2020 that just 50% planned to get a new COVID-19 vaccine.27 While experts and journalists contemplate how to win over those who say they won’t take it under any circumstance, distrust is growing over buried evidence and the undertaking to meld human biology, technology and artificial intelligence — or the promise of becoming “Human 2.0.”
To raise the potential that more people will take the vaccine, a clinical study28 announced on ClinicalTrials.gov is taking aim at the messages you read and hear about the vaccine. Led by Yale University, researchers are testing the most effective method to manipulate your mind using 10 options. These include your feelings about:
As legislators and scientists are pushing for mandatory vaccination programs that may or may not have significant and life-long effects, consider gathering your own information about vaccine injuries. You’ll discover more at:
The controversy over whether mercury overexposure can trigger autism is a long-standing one. A new meta-analysis of previous studies sheds much needed light on the matter, concluding there’s a “significant relationship” between the two.
The review,1,2 published in the September 2020 issue of Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, looked at 18 studies conducted between 1982 and 2019 that examined the relationship between concentrations of copper, lead or mercury in blood, plasma, hair or nails and the prevalence of autism. While no relationship was found between autism and copper concentrations, a high degree of correlation was found for mercury and lead.
According to the authors,3 the relationship between mercury and autism is so strong that “the concentration of mercury can be listed as a pathogenic cause (disease-causing) for autism.” This held true even when outlier studies that might unduly influence the results were removed.
In the introduction, the authors point out that studies carried out in this area suggest mercury and other toxins are involved in the cause of autism, which include abnormal brain development that affects social interaction and communication skills.
“Metals’ biological effects are associated with their chemical properties, suggesting that excessive metal exposure can cause brain abnormalities around the world,” the researchers state.4
“Mercury is considered as a risk factor for autism since, according to previous studies, it has been recognized as a neurotrophic toxin. Reduction in mercury content in hair and teeth of the children with autism aroused the low disposal of mercury hypothesis.
Blaurock-Bush et al found that heavy metals are effective in the development of autism disorder. The role of mercury in the pathogenesis of autism has also been proven in other studies …
According to points raised in the present study … it would be quite reasonable to advise prevention of exposure to mercury and lead in children and provision of suitable conditions during the sensitive period of mothers’ pregnancy as vital measures to prevent the disease …”
A 2017 review paper,5 “The Toxicology of Mercury: Current Research and Emerging Trends,” details the “kinetics of this metal,” including “its metabolism, interaction with other metals, distribution, internal doses and targets and reservoir organs.” The paper cites several studies linking mercury and autism among its references, noting that:6
“Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been demonstrated to be accompanied by distorted metal homeostasis. The degree to which people are affected by the metals seems to be largely influenced by the individual genetic makeup.
Especially Hg [mercury] exposure has become a suspected causative factor for many pathological conditions, and several sources of exposure to Hg compounds can be listed, including dental amalgam fillings, seafood, vaccines and increasingly from energy saving light bulbs as well.”
In the video above, the University of Calgary faculty of medicine illustrate how mercury causes neuronal degeneration in your brain. While there are many environmental sources of mercury exposure, some of the most prominent ones include high-mercury fish, dental amalgam and thimerosal-containing vaccines.
Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative used in certain vaccines. While it has been removed from most childhood vaccines, it is still used in some multidose vials, meaning vials that contain more than a single dose of the vaccine.
Remarkably, while the fact that mercury is neurotoxic is noncontroversial, health authorities still insist injected thimerosal is perfectly safe and has never been linked to neurological dysfunction. How could that be?
In 2014, a review article7 in the BioMed Research International journal titled, “Methodological Issues and Evidence of Malfeasance in Research Purporting to Show Thimerosal in Vaccines Is Safe,” noted that:
“The studies upon which the CDC relies and over which it exerted some level of control report that there is no increased risk of autism from exposure to organic Hg in vaccines, and some of these studies even reported that exposure to Thimerosal appeared to decrease the risk of autism.
These six studies are in sharp contrast to research conducted by independent researchers over the past 75+ years that have consistently found Thimerosal to be harmful … Many studies conducted by independent investigators have found Thimerosal to be associated with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Several studies, for example, including three of the six studies covered in this review, have found Thimerosal to be a risk factor for tics. In addition, Thimerosal has been found to be a risk factor in speech delay, language delay, attention deficit disorder, and autism.
Considering that there are many studies conducted by independent researchers which show a relationship between Thimerosal and neurodevelopmental disorders, the results of the six studies examined in this review, particularly those showing the protective effects of Thimerosal, should bring into question the validity of the methodology used in the studies …
Importantly … five of the publications examined in this review were directly commissioned by the CDC, raising the possible issue of conflict of interests or research bias, since vaccine promotion is a central mission of the CDC.
Conceivably, if serious neurological disorders are found to be related to Thimerosal in vaccines, such findings could possibly be viewed as damaging to the vaccine program.”
Today, the most commonly used vaccine preservative is aluminum, not thimerosal. It’s unfortunate that the Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics review did not include it, because it’s likely that aluminum has a similar impact on autism as mercury.
According to a 2018 study,8 people with autism were found to have high amounts of aluminum in their brains.
“The mean (standard deviation) aluminium content across all 5 individuals for each lobe were 3.82(5.42), 2.30(2.00), 2.79(4.05) and 3.82(5.17) μg/g dry wt. for the occipital, frontal, temporal and parietal lobes respectively,” the researchers noted.9
The lead author on this paper was Dr. Christopher Exley, a leading expert in aluminum toxicology. He and a team of international scientists have also published a paper10 in the (preprint) December 2020 issue of the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology.
In it, they provide evidence for their position that “the safety of aluminium-based vaccine adjuvants … must be seriously evaluated without further delay, particularly at a time when the CDC is announcing a still increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, of 1 child in 54 in the USA.”
As with thimerosal above, serious flaws and errors plague studies that claim aluminum in vaccines is safe. As reported in “Major Error Found in Vaccine Aluminum Safety Calculation,” a mathematical error found in a key U.S. Food and Drug Administration study has reignited concerns about its safety.
The FDA study,11 published in 2011, compared aluminum exposure from vaccines in infants to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) safety limit of oral aluminum, concluding that:12
"… the body burden of aluminum from vaccines and diet throughout an infant's first year of life is significantly less than the corresponding safe body burden of aluminum modeled using the regulatory MRL.
We conclude that episodic exposures to vaccines that contain aluminum adjuvant continue to be extremely low risk to infants and that the benefits of using vaccines containing aluminum adjuvant outweigh any theoretical concerns."
The problem, found by Physicians for Informed Consent, is that the FDA based its calculations on 0.78% of oral aluminum being absorbed into the bloodstream instead of the value of 0.1% used by the ATSDR.
"As a result," Physicians for Informed Consent noted,13 "the FDA paper assumed that nearly 8 (0.78%/0.1%) times more aluminum can safely enter the bloodstream, and this led the authors to incorrectly conclude that aluminum exposure from vaccines was well below the safety limit." Christopher Shaw, a professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied the effects of injected aluminum, explained in a news release:14
"We knew that the [2011] Mitkus et al. paper modeling aluminum clearance had to be inaccurate since it was assuming that injected aluminum kinetics were the same as the kinetics of aluminum acquired through diet.
Now, in addition, we see that they did their modeling based on using the incorrect level of aluminum absorption. What is particularly striking is that despite all these errors, since 2011, Mitkus et al. is used by CDC and other entities as the basis for claiming that aluminum adjuvants are safe."
Lead is a naturally occurring metal that was once commonly used in gasoline, paint and children's toys, and is still a part of batteries, pipes, pottery, roofing materials and cosmetics. Due to environmental pollution, food and water has also become a source of this dangerous toxin.
If you live in an urban area or near a busy road, it's probably best to assume that your soil is contaminated with lead to some extent. This is also an issue if you plan to plant a vegetable garden, as vegetables can take up lead from the soil very efficiently.
Lead damages your brain and nervous system, and has been shown to lower IQ. Even small amounts can be dangerous, as lead builds up in your body over time. Children under 6 are especially at risk, as they absorb lead more easily than adults.
As detailed in “The Heroes Who Sunk Lead,” Herbert Needleman performed much of the foundational research showing even low levels of lead were dangerous. Another crucial crusader against lead was geochemist Clair Cameron Patterson, Ph.D.
It’s thanks to Patterson’s tireless work that lead was finally removed from gasoline, thereby saving untold billions of people from serious harm.15 He’s an unsung public health hero of the 20th century that most people have never heard of.
The video below is a short summary of the evolution of leaded gas, and ultimately, its removal, which was no small feat. Unfortunately, there are many other sources of toxic metals, and unless we address them all, we’re unlikely to get a handle on the autism epidemic.
As mentioned, dental mercury is one pernicious source of mercury. Here, there is good news. After years of pressure from Consumers for Dental Choice and its allies, the FDA has finally released a long-overdue safety communication on dental amalgam.16 September 24, 2020, the FDA issued a warning that mercury fillings may adversely affect:
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Pregnant women and their developing fetuses |
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Women who are planning to become pregnant |
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Nursing women and their newborns and infants |
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Children, especially those younger than 6 |
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People with pre-existing neurological disease such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease |
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People with impaired kidney function |
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People with known heightened sensitivity (allergy) to mercury or other components of dental amalgam |
While the FDA downplays the importance of its changed recommendation by stressing that the benefits of dental amalgam likely “outweigh their risks for most patients,” this update is nothing short of monumental, and opens the door, finally, for the elimination of dental mercury for all patients in the U.S., as has been done in many other countries already.
Heavy metal detoxification is no simple matter. As explained in “The Three Pillars of Heavy Metal Detoxification,” glutathione is the dominant agent that binds to and helps move mercury and other heavy metals out of your tissues. Part of effective detox involves upregulating your biochemistry to facilitate the mobilization and elimination of metals. In summary, the three pillars of heavy metal detox are:
My mercury detox protocol is detailed in “Revised Protocol for Detoxifying Your Body from Mercury Exposure.” One way to help improve your glutathione is by taking N-acetylcysteine (NAC), which is a precursor to and rate-limiting nutrient for the formation of glutathione.
Glutathione is poorly absorbed so, in many cases, it's easier to raise your glutathione by taking NAC instead. You can learn more about this in “Glutathione and NAC Play Crucial Roles in Health and Fitness.”
In addition to upregulating your biochemistry to mobilize and eliminate heavy metals, sauna bathing can go a long way toward eliminating mercury and other toxins from your body. You can learn more about this in “How to Achieve Superior Detoxification With Near-Infrared Light.”
In January 2020, I also interviewed Boyd Haley, Ph.D., is a chemist specializing in the development of chemicals to chelate toxic metals. Haley has developed a nontoxic chelating compound called emeramide or NBMI (brand name Irminix), which tightly binds to mercury and free iron (which is also highly toxic), and acts as a potent antioxidant, as it has two glutathione arms.
Emeramid is still under drug development but can be obtained via expanded access, named patient use, compassionate use or special use, depending on the country you're in. An early access application and prescription, required by the EMA, is available on the company's website, EmeraMed.com.17
In closing, the evidence strongly suggests exposure to mercury, lead and aluminum are significant risk factors for autism and other neuropathologies. The simplest answer to the autism epidemic is therefore to prevent children from these kinds of exposures. That includes banning dental amalgam and getting thimerosal and aluminum out of all vaccines.
