According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)'s own records, having three vaccinations containing thimerosal increased a child's risk of developing autism twentysevenfold, making the health risk from having certain childhood vaccinations much higher than that, say, of developing lung cancer from smoking, which is twentytwofold for men and elevenfold for women.

It took researchers David and Mark Geier a year and a half to gain full access to the CDC data. They found the same link between thimerosal and vaccine as they had found in their own research but much worse once the data was compiled. (Their research had found a fivefold increased risk.)

The Geiers hoped to submit their new findings to peer review then publish them soon.

An analysis of the vaccination history and health outcomes of 124,170 US infants born 1992-1999 found no evidence of any link between thimerosal and autism, but did find evidence that thimerosal in vaccines nearly doubled children’s risk of developing tics and slightly increased (13%) their risk of delayed speech development. Further research is planned.

Commenting on the study, Mark Geier revealed that:

• the lead researcher Thomas Verstraeten worked for GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturers of thimerosal- containing vaccines

• the results of the study were discussed at a secret meeting between the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and GlaxoSmithKline, where the possibility of massaging the data to minimise embarrassing findings was discussed

• the transcripts of the meeting, obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act, revealed that a significant link between thimerosal-containing vaccinations and autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders had been found

Courtesy of The Informed Parent