By Jim Thompson
Last month Age of Autism reported additional evidence obtained by SafeMinds. One of the important aspects of this is that Thomas Verstraeten reported a significant association between Thimerosal in vaccines and neurologic development disorder both in 1999 and in 2000.
First in 1999 he reported that “The relative risk (RR) of developing a neurologic development disorder was 1.8 (95% confidence intervals [CI] 1.1-2.8) when comparing the highest exposure group at 1 month of age (cumulative dose> 25 ug) to the unexposed group.”
Then in 2000, after the 1999 database was modified, he reported the following results. These were slightly lower associations of overall neurologic development disorders. But even so the evidence of an association of harm remained. The signal of evidence of harm did not go away.
“… the overall category of neurologic developmental disorders …That's an increase of .7% for each additional microgram of ethyl mercury. For an example, if we would go from zero to 50 micrograms of ethyl mercury, we would have to multiple these estimate by 50, so that would give us an additional increase of about 35 %, which is pretty close to the point estimate for this category.” (2000)
This clear statement of finding an association of Thimerosal causing harm is presented quantitatively in an equation. It does not get much stronger than this in terms of reporting a risk of harm.
So what happened next? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee, called the Immunization Safety Review Committee, used additional inconclusive studies to ignore Thomas Verstraeten’s first studies that reported evidence of harm.
What does this mean in terms of safety? It means there is no safety consideration at all here. It is nonsense to ignore associations of risk when they have not been shown to be incorrect. But the 2004 IOM committee said this: “The committee also concludes that the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. The committee further finds that potential biological mechanisms for vaccine induced autism that have been generated to date are theoretical only.”
To put this is plain language; this IOM committee would not act on those CDC studies by Verstraeten that found an association of harm from the injection of Thimerosal with the heavy metal mercury. So this information obtained by SafeMinds further illuminates this hoax by the IOM in the safety statements for Thimerosal preserved vaccines. And the insane practice of injection of mercury, a known neurotoxin found in Thimerosal preserved vaccines, into the bodies of children and pregnant women continues.
Congress should ban all mercury in vaccines immediately.
Jim Thompson is a registered professional engineer. His first granddaughter was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy, verbal apraxia, motor disorder, and sensory integration disorder. Her loving memory has influenced his family’s decision to help protect children from vaccine injuries.
In order to include more information on the source of the 1999 Verstraeten abstract, the first sentence should read as follows:
Last month Age of Autism reported on additional evidence that was also reported on by Safeminds. This copy of the 1999 Verstraeten abstract was first posted on the web by the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD), a 501(C) (3) not-for-profit group in 2013.
It is currently posted with the title "CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) annual conference abstract submission for the EIS conference in April 2000. Discovered in August of 2013 in a CDC response to a Congressional Request by an office in the U.S.House of Representatives - the abstract submission is titled. ‘Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high exposure to Thimerosal containing vaccine in first month of life.’"