Possible Scandal Exposed in Autism-Mercury Study
The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs has obtained documents suggesting that U.S. officials helped cover up a decline in Denmark’s autism rates following the removal of mercury from vaccines.
The documents suggest that U.S. Centers for Disease Control officials were aware of Danish data indicating a connection between removing Thimerosal (49.55% mercury) and a decline in autism rates. Despite this knowledge, these officials allowed a 2003 article to be published in Pediatrics that excluded this information, misrepresented the decline as an increase, and led to the conclusion that Thimerosal in vaccines does not cause autism, according to the organization’s press release.
This well-publicized Danish study published in Pediatrics 2003 not only claimed that autism rates increased after Thimerosal was phased out, but it became a cornerstone for the notion that mercury does not cause autism.
