Re: Dan Burton on flu vaccine (and autism)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What Dan Burton said to the House Members:
> 
>http://www.house.gov/burton/autism.htm

Ah yes, Dan Burton, he who sired the illegitimate child, but who had
the nerve to call Bill Clinton a "scumbag."

>Mr. Burton: Madam speaker, as we approach the flu season, many of my
>colleagues will visit the doctor's office here on Capitol Hill and receive
>a flu shot. Before they go, I think all of my colleagues ought to know that
>the flu shot contains mercury, which is a substance that's toxic to the
>human brain. Now, that's not to say that you shouldn't get your flu shot if
>you want to, but there are a lot of neurological disorders that have been
>caused by mercury and I think everybody ought to know that there is mercury
>in that vaccine. Now, that's not the only vaccine that contains thimerosal.
>>From anthrax to hepatitis to dtap, which is given to infants to protect
>them, numerous vaccines exist that contain mercury, a harmful preservative.

Except that the thimerosal is now out of all childhood vaccines.

>Parents around this country I am sure would be very upset if they knew
>that. Scientific evidence continues to accumulate regarding the
>biologically plausible connection between mercury and thimerosal, autism
>and other neurological, developmental disorders.

Other scientific evidence continues to accumulate to show that the
thimerosal is a red herring, and that fear of it is detracting from
the search for the actual causes.

> Yet several well-known and firmly established pharmaceutical companies
>continue to put mercury into vaccines as a preservative, and it's never
>been tested. That's very interesting. Although the U.S. Food and Drug
>Administration asked vaccine manufacturers to begin removing the
>mercury-laden preservative from vaccines in 1999, they didn't order them to
>do it, and so the pharmaceutical companies continue to put that in our
>vaccines. 

Only some of them and only for adults.

>During my tenure as chairman of the house government reform committee, a
>myriad of scientists testified at a series of hearings before the Committee
>that mercury in vaccines is a contributing factor to developing
>neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and autism in
>children. 

Those were the only ones he invited to testify.  What a strange
coincidence. 

>brain damage caused by the mercury-based preservative which is still found
>in childhood vaccines, diphtheria, hepatitis b, and the flu shots.

Diphtheria, but not DTaP, which is what most kids should get.  Bep B,
yes, but only one brand; not the others.  Flu vaccine, yes.  No other
childhood vaccines.

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