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Rahul K. Parikh
Fighting for the Reputation of Vaccines: Lessons From American Politics
Pediatrics 2008; 121: 621-622 [Full text] [PDF]
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[Read eLetters] Reputation Of Vaccines And The People Who Defend Them
Michael F. Wagnitz   (13 March 2008)
[Read eLetters] A winning campaign would be for professionals to tell the truth
Lisa C Blakemore-Brown   (20 April 2009)

Reputation Of Vaccines And The People Who Defend Them 13 March 2008
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Michael F. Wagnitz,
Chemist
National Autism Association

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Re: Reputation Of Vaccines And The People Who Defend Them

mwagnit{at}gmail.com Michael F. Wagnitz

Parents get angry when they see the following numbers listed on the internet. These numbers have been out there for everyone to read for years. They are mathamatical facts backed by references. The way to quell parental fears would be for someone like Dr. Parikh to address these numbers. Using propaganda is not going to work and only makes the situation worse.

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2 ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste. http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in the Hepatitis B vaccine, administered at birth in the U.S., from 1990-2001.

50,000 ppb Mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTaP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 4 times each in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current "preservative" level mercury in multi-dose flu (94% of supply), meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi- dose vials.

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Father of a child labeled as autistic
A winning campaign would be for professionals to tell the truth 20 April 2009
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Lisa C Blakemore-Brown,
British Psychologist
Independent

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ltapestry{at}aol.com Lisa C Blakemore-Brown

Dr Parikh urges his colleagues to start a campaign against parents, using emotive language and imagery, as he says this is what parents are doing in campaigns against the vaccine programme.

Parents have no choice but to start campaigns when professionals fail to tell them the truth.

However, professionals do have the choice - they can own up to the well recognised and fully documented adverse reactions to vaccines if they want to convince the public that they can be trusted with the health of their children.

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