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Originally Posted by Doctor X
I can think of few more gut-wrenching tragedies than the serious illness to death of a child. Blaming "someone else" makes sense.
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I can remember when autism was "blamed" on the parents. So yes, blaming somebody made sense to all the medical people in the world. And since it was the parents fault, nobody looked for a physical cause for autism.
It was a certain type of "cold mother" that caused autism. The medical world had declared (with no evidence at all) that autism was caused by bad parenting.
One can hardly imagine that at the same period in time, mercury based "medicine" (calomel, or mercurous chloride) was used as a medical treatment for teething.
The result of this was
Acrodynia (also known as "calomel disease," "erythredemic polyneuropathy," and "pink disease"). It was mercury poisoning. It was also commonplace amongst children in the first half of the 20th century.
Some Doctors figured out it was mercury causing it, but it took decades before people stopped using mercury as medicine.
It's hard to believe, but in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and even the 60s, almost every Doctors didn't know mercury was a potent nerve poison. A deadly substance to developing children, to a fetus, and of course, to adults.
Some people still insist, despite all the evidence, that mercury isn't harmful. I'm not kidding. They think mercury is OK to inject into a human body. To use in fillings, to actually place mercury into a living human being.
And no amount of evidence will convince most of them. Having made up their minds (with no evidence) that mercury is somehow not a poison, they try to defend it.
Smart people realize that if a Doctor or researcher or internet expert can't grasp that mercury is bad for human beings, then anything else they say is suspect.
Because if you are that close minded, that insane, to insist that mercury is OK (it's just a little bit, it isn't that bad, there is no evidence, or what ever fucked up reasoning they use), if you keep insisting mercury is OK, then you have lost the audience.
I doubt everybody gets together and plans it out. Some conspiracies are just a conspiracy of ignorance.
The worst thing about it, even when a smart skeptical person just points out the facts about mercury (thimerosal, mercury fillings, coal fired power plants, whatever), the very people who are supposed to be skeptical, to be scientific, they act like idiots and turn on their own, throwing out claims and ad homs and using logical fallacies. And they don't get it.
It's a closed mind that won't even look at evidence.
You can present anything and everything in the world, it won't change the facts. Mercury is a poison. Thimerosal is used in a vaccine for one reason. To kill any living organism that contaminates a vial of a vaccine. Which it does quite well.
Injecting any amount of any mercury based chemical compound into a human being is a bad thing. You can talk and reason and say anything in the world, it won't change that.
Recent animal studies have revealed a possible mechanism for how even a small amount of thimerosal can damage the brain.
Thousands of parents have watched, in abject horror, as their healthy normal child gets sick immediately after getting a vaccine. (that probably doesn't even contain any mercury).
Then after a serious medical problem, the child is no longer the same.
Saying this can't happen, that it never happens, that it would have happened in any case, none of that will change the mind of somebody who watches it happen.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor X
I can think of few more gut-wrenching tragedies than the serious illness to death of a child. Blaming "someone else" makes sense.
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To Doctors, blaming the child makes sense.
To parents, blaming a vaccine makes sense.
Blaming parents doesn't make sense any more. But it used to make sense. Remember? Autism used to be the parents fault.
Actually, the mothers fault.
So when somebody tries to get on a high horse, I tend to shoot the horse out from under them.
When
Acrodynia, (Pink disease), was an epidemic, no Doctor knew what caused it. Because kids grew out of it, (after teething there was no need to use mercury any longer), nobody really did much about it. At first.
This was widespread mercury poisoning of small children. Millions of them. And no Doctor knew what caused it.
Now, we have Autism, on the rise, an epidemic, but kids don't grow out of it.
And no Doctor knows what caused it.
That's right. Nobody can tell you what causes autism. They can only swear it isn't anything medical science is doing that causes it.