California Begins Injecting Children with Mercury...

a reply to: Metallicus

Myth 2: Vaccines contain mercury

Mercury was removed from all routine childhood vaccines in Australia in the year 2000 (with the exception of one type of HepB vaccine which contains trace amounts) and it was never in the MMR vaccine. Prior to 2000, thimerosal, an organomercury compound, was used in the manufacturing process of vaccines as a preservative. The process left only trace amounts in the finished product – you ingest more mercury when you eat a can of tuna than you would ever get from a vaccine. Also there are two types of mercury – methyl mercury is the scary environmental toxin that “bioaccumulates” in your body, and ethyl mercury the type found in thimerosal, which does not bioaccumulate.
If thimerosal was implicated in autism, you would expect a significant drop in cases after its removal. Instead the opposite is true – autism rates continue to rise.


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originally posted by: ringdingdong
a reply to: Bedlam

Reopened on grounds of poor reasoning. Snipping my quote out of context and providing an extreme example might be viewed as clever to some, but is in poor taste and choosing to miss the point.

The point is about differences in rate of absorption of toxic chemicals via different pathways of exposure. How much less cyanide is needed to be lethal if inhaled? That would be mildly relevant.

Yeah, try injecting some peanut butter and see what happens - it's a lot different eating it than it is injecting it.