Mercury Poisoning
A Crisis In Medical & Dental Science

by Mark Sircus

September 24, 2004

 

 

 

 

Preface 
 

What you are about to read is a medical review about a tragedy unequalled in the annals of history. A failure of basic medical science has been recently discovered with serious implications for governments and medical authorities around the world - especially for the American government at the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), the American Dental Association (ADA), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Association of Pediatricians (AAP), and the World Health Organization (WHO). Shocking and beyond belief, what this report uncovers suggests the very essence of allopathic and dental medicine has been compromised. It will be established in this review that all sensible concern for published scientific research regarding synergistic and simple toxicity gradients of mercury based medical products have been cast aside exposing the entire world’s population to grave unwarranted harm.[i]

 

It is the inability to see the effects of chronic,
 low level toxicities on human health that has been,
 and remains, our greatest failing as intelligent beings.
                                                                       

Dr. Boyd Haley                         

                                                                                           Chairman of Chemistry Dept.
                                                                              Kentucky University

 

Nothing will prepare regular doctors, nurses, dentists and the public at large in the United States and the rest of the world for what is revealed in this report. There are certain things that are so unpleasant that we would rather turn our backs and mind our own business but in this case the cost can be so high that we dare not. The introduction/overviews, (the first of which concentrates on the vaccine thimerosal issue, the second on the amalgam dental one) that follows offer sweeping pictures, in laymen’s language, of a chemical nightmare that has occurred because medical and dental authorities have thrown to the wind the sound reasoning of unbiased and reputable scientists, who deal with toxicology, pathology, pharmacology and cell biology, thus exposing uncountable[ii] millions of adults and children to serious injury, death, and lifelong mental impairment. 

 

Supporting sections of this report probe deeply into the medical science and chemistry of injecting thimerosal (mercury), one of the most poisonous toxic compounds known to mankind, and other highly toxic substances, directly into the bodies of newborns and infant toddlers via the childhood immunization schedule. Another covers the added madness of complicating the chemical equation by injecting into very young children, as many as eleven vaccines (five injections) at a time; another offers an in depth discussion and analysis of the serious toxicities of what US federal and international authorities consider to be “traces” of these highly dangerous substances.

 

This report will also find the dental profession guilty of ignoring the dangers of mercury based amalgam dental fillings and the serious damage that comes from constantly leaking amalgam that spill vaporous mercury into the oral cavity.[iii] [iv] [v] [vi] We will find dentists contributing greatly to the mercury poisoning[vii] of the human race through the use of materials, that when removed from the mouth, are considered highly dangerous toxic waste by the Environmental Protection Agency and must be handled in a certain way to protect dental office personnel from mercury poisoning. Many dentists know of the dangers of removal and recommend leaving the amalgams in, believing it is healthier to maintain toxic waste dumps in human mouths.

 

 This document, in its entirety, sustains grave accusations made in the introductions. If we choose to live with atrocious medical behaviors, as is suggested by medical authorities in the US and elsewhere around the world, we can doubt the future direction of civilization and certainly the protective paternal nature of government and medical organizations. To deliberately inject poisons into newborn babies for reason (or no reason)[viii] [ix] is not justifiable under any circumstances. And to continue to use ‘ancient’ toxic formulas for fillings in teeth, when alternatives are now available, is appalling.

 

Though all is quiet in regards to the amalgam issue lawmakers in the United States are in open rebellion against medical authorities at the CDC, the pharmaceutical companies, and the World Health Organization, which all still favor the use of thimerosal (mercury) even though many researchers are presenting its grave dangers. According to Dr. Mark Greier, who has studied the CDC’s own data, “Kids who received 100 micrograms of thimerosal were over ten times more likely to have autism than the kids who received no mercury containing vaccines”. Presently Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas have all presented legislation to ban thimerosal in childhood vaccines, and in April of 2004, federal congressman Dr. Dave Weldon and congresswoman Carolyn Murphy from New York introduced legislation to ban mercury from vaccines at the federal level. Though there is a firestorm sweeping the halls of science, board rooms in pharmaceutical companies, a conflagration that is reaching the steps of the congress in Washington, with over four thousand cases of vaccine poisoning pending, and a trillion dollars at stake in America, in the third world the issue is not being discussed and as such children in most countries are being injected with full strength doses of mercury under the auspices of the World Health Organization which would not have it any other way.

 

Any competent biochemist would look at the structure of thimerosal and identify it as a potent enzyme inhibitor. What is surprising is that the appropriate animal and laboratory  testing was not done on the vaccines containing thimerosal  (and aluminum) before the government embarked on a mandated vaccine program that exposed infants to the levels of thimerosal that occurred.

 

Dr. Boyd E. Haley

 

Doctors, nurses and dentists have been led into ignorance of unsafe medical practices deliberately, and from this they must be excused, though ignorance can no longer be an excuse or legal defense in the future. Doctors, dentists and nurses have essentially been issued “gag orders” preventing them from mentioning to patients the dangers of mercury-based products: amalgam fillings, which are fifty percent mercury; and thimerosal used in the manufacture and preservation of vaccines, which is fifty percent mercury by weight. Mercury has been appropriately removed from all other medical products except these, for it is one of the most toxic and dangerous elements known to mankind.[x]

 

Heavy metal exposure during early development is associated
with impaired neurological and cognitive function.
[xi] [xii]
                                                                               

Dr. M. Waly                                           

Department of Pharmaceutical Science    

Northeastern University                          

 

If any of these healthcare professionals informs their patients of the truthful facts, dangers and risks of the mercury based products they are using he or she will be considered by peers and professional governing boards to be seriously out of step putting their licenses in jeopardy. Undoubtedly questioning the immunization program can make scientists extremely unpopular with their peers, probably because so many of them count on their income from pharmaceutical companies or related organizations. When it comes to vaccines and the childhood immunization schedule, medical authorities show a complete disdain to any challenges to highly dangerous vaccines that are known to cause grave harm and even death to infants. Using a host of deflecting techniques they successfully malign all rational challenges to the supremacy of their most cherished, though false beliefs about the safety and absolute necessity of every childhood vaccination. The dental branch of the FDA keeps pace refusing to even do a safety study on amalgams - thus both medical and dental science have been flooding humanity with mercury, that in older people is retained and builds up through years of exposure, and in infants is now proven to cause autism and other serious neurological problems, and sometimes sudden death.[xiii] [xiv] Both areas of medicine are guilty of presenting false images of safety and will eventually be held responsible for the damages they are creating.

 

Can you imagine the economic and political import of
discovering that immunizations are killing thousands of babies?

                                                                                                           Dr. Douglass

 

It must be known that there are many in the above professions who will discount every fact and all the data presented by basic scientists simply because it confronts their own hidden agendas. To them facts don’t count and data is only valid if it agrees with established viewpoints. Thus nothing is spared in this presentation, no coddling of the medical establishments and the governmental bodies that have already shown their true colors and their blinding attachments to lock stepped beliefs and dangerous medical and dental practices. Many important medical officials do not even bother to read the published research, shirking their responsibilities, becoming criminally negligent; they become menaces to public health, and should be called to resign immediately. It is beyond human explanation that certain officials on the state and federal level can stand up before cameras and “lie” about the safety of using mercury in vaccines in a desperate cover-up that allows a literal killing field to continue.


It should be clear to everyone that our primary concern first
 is with the children and the next child or newborn about to be hurt,
 not with medical self-images or hurt professional pride.

 

Mercury poisoning is the hidden disaster of public health and goes undiagnosed simply because of the stubborn intransigence of health officials that seem to be only worried about mercury in fish. From Alzheimer’s disease, to a devastating lineup of other neurological diseases including Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, autism and AD - mercury is known to be a potent neurotoxicant that either is the prime cause of such disorders or certainly is seen to exacerbate these neurological diseases.[xv] In children we are seeing new chronic problems like asthma[xvi], diabetes and even cancer increasing and many unexplained deaths that are classified, as either Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Shaken Baby Syndrome, where the last thing medical officials concede is the possibility that mercury and other toxins in vaccines is the cause, complicated with the additional exposure to mercury, mother to the fetus, through vaporous leakage of amalgam fillings.

 

 

Combined mercury toxicity can be devastating.

                                                                           

Dr. Boyd Haley                                    

 

 

Take a single case of intense mercury poisoning in a child, a case where they have suffered from intense stripping of tubulin from the axon structure, or what is commonly known as demyelinating disorders[xvii], and you are talking about a child who will live in a state of perpetual agony. There does not exist a torturer in history who has thought of something that can compete with the total misery and pain suffered by parents and child alike; one such case is just too much, imagine hundreds of thousands if not millions suffering from this around the world.   

 

The catastrophe with mercury poisoning has been a slowly escalating phenomenon that broke through a certain barrier in the past decade and now stands clear as a visible trend to basic scientists who have become increasing alarmed, especially as public health officials have stonewalled them. In what will be remembered in the far future as the true Dark Ages of Medicine, we have a human disaster unequalled in the history of human race in progress. A holocaust of destruction, a rape of humanity, a horror on a world wide level that supercedes the terrors initiated by the worst madmen in history.

 

What we have is the biggest iatrogenic (doctor caused)
 catastrophe that has ever happened.
 

                                                                     Dr. Mark Geier

 

None of this is in doubt. What is in doubt is if we as a race of beings are going to do anything about it, and if we are, when?[xviii] Everyday children around the world are being killed through lethal injections and the United States government concedes that 1 out of 166 children born will be diagnosed with autism. This means that out of the 4 million born each year approximately 24,000 will be devastated with mercury poisoning resulting in autism. On a world-wide scale its anyone’s guess how many children are falling to the needle, and if we factor in all the other neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s and speech disorders etc., we see the size of the tragedy just beginning to be revealed in its full dimension.

 

In reality medicine has come up with many disease categories, diagnostic labels that simply hide the truth. Autism is actually a red herring, a deflection, a way of denying the very simple truth that most of these children have been poisoned by the use of mercury in medicine and dental products, as well as by a long list of toxins flooding the environment. Yes there are complicating factors that need to be discussed in depth, but as the latest information from California shows, as mercury levels in vaccines are being reduced, new reports of autism are declining.[xix] The largest and most illegal human medical experiment in history, though, is still in progress, our kids the guinea pigs, our collective lives held ransom.

 

We know who thought up this idea on the vaccine side; it was Eli Lilly Company. (see Introduction and Histories) The amalgam mercury based filling is an idea that is over a century and a half old and holds the distinction of being a dinosaur in the medical dental field, responsible for more mercury pollution in the environment and more toxicity build up in the body than any other source.

 

What you are about to read suggests a medical barbarism perhaps only equaled in the still current surgical practices seen in Africa where a million young women suffer each year from genital mutilation. That we find a parallel happening in modern medical and dental science is incredulous. A challenge to our humanity is in the offering and how we collectively handle this information and the investigations that follow will determine much for each and every one of us. It is not acceptable to civilized man that Africans are still mutilating their young women, that rape is a common everyday human behavior, that childhood sexual abuse is widespread; and it is equally unacceptable that we find both medical and dental science supporting the extensive use of mercury. The thing all these perpetrators of human harm have in common is the inability to see and admit the hurt they are causing. The psychological profile of denial is the hallmark of all of the above and the abuse of innocence generated the source of great suffering and pain.[xx]

 

It must be noted that none of this is happening in a vacuum. Tragedies are evident in many areas, including the harm caused by food additives, preservatives, pesticides, water fluoridation, cancer and AIDS treatments, anti-depressive medications and other drugs having only marginal, if any, benefit.   Many scientists and doctors have analyzed the dangers embedded in the health care system and concur that the current health care system is broken. Some eminent physicians high in the medical establishment like Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard trained physician who is a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, conclude that nothing short of a medical revolution, that focuses on eliminating the danger, waste, confusion, and arrogance of modern medicine will do.

 

Dr. Barbara Starfield[xxi] estimates that there are approximately 225,000 to 284,000 avoidable deaths occurring at the hands of doctors each year in hospitals, while Gary Null Ph.D and his medical colleagues[xxii] estimate the figure much higher – 786,000 in the United States by including outpatient deaths estimated at 199,000, (also noted but not included by Starfield), and other categories of iatrogenic deaths like malnutrition and bedsores - 108,000 and 115,000 respectively. The high end of these numbers represent 6 jumbo jets falling out of the sky each and every day and that is for the United States alone. It must be carefully noted that all of these numbers actually represent conservative estimates for many, from the FDA, the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, to individual doctors and researchers like Leape, Wald and Shojania, all report that only between 1 to a maximum of 20 percent of adverse drug or surgical events ever get reported because doctors are afraid they will get sued if they report and error.

 

What we can deduce from all of the above is that field of medicine and dentistry are in need of complete and total reform from the curriculums in dental and medical schools to protecting patients from excessive and invasive interventions. Standing in the way of such reforms is the killing machine of the pharmaceutical industry. If we hope for any significant change we need to keep it clearly in mind that resisting change “are powerful pharmaceutical companies, medical technology companies, and special interest groups with enormous vested interests in the business of medicine. They fund medical research, support medical schools and hospitals, and advertise in medical journals. With deep pockets they entice scientists and academics to support their efforts,” write doctors Null, Dean, Feldman, Rasio and Smith in their famous report Death by Medicine. A mighty fortress of reinforced links has been created by the interrelationship among government, media, educational institutions, medicine, and corporations, which leaves the common man, woman and child easy pickings. 

 

Medicine will never be safe as long as the incursion of powerful pharmaceutical companies into the medical decision-making process is tolerated, since profit motives interfere with sound medical judgment.

 

Thus, to the horror of many, the killing machine of modern medicine just keeps on rolling along as if nothing is happening. We are collectively being confronted with a death machine that is speeding up rather than winding down, an idea that is reinforced by Doctor Thomas Saari, spokesperson for the AAP, who says, “We project over the next ten years that we’ll add one to two new vaccines a year, so you need to be concerned about the total amount of thimerosal children would ultimately get if the newer vaccines use thimerosal as a preservative as well.” What Saari is promising is more toxic waste dumping into children and thus more suffering and death.

 

The pharmaceutical industry and the medical elite they control
 are perpetrating medical disasters of astounding proportions.

Instead of serving the interests of those who entrust them
 with their health, the medical establishment has become
 a legally sanctioned purveyor of death.

 

The bottom line will be measured in our ability to effect change to a medical community, governments, and corporations that do not want to change or stop hurting people. It seems that nothing short of a true medical revolution will turn the tide but in this it must be remembered that this entails a rebellion against government for one is in bed with the other. The odds are stacked heavily against the common person who is used in a similar fashion to the people in the original movie the Matrix. Instead of as batteries supplying a computer world with energy today humans are taken for profit at the expense of their life and health. Perhaps the blind lockstep of society has been programmed in insidiously on such a deep level that we no longer are capable of thinking appropriately about reality and doing anything about it. Perhaps we have accepted and swallowed something so hideous and anti-human that we have in fact banished our true sense of humanity to antiquity and thus will not do anything about all of this. If so the deaths and terrible sufferings will go on forever and one day someone we love will fall.


 


[i]The Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued a statement asserting, “the available scientific evidence has not shown thimerosal-containing vaccines to be harmful.” Their statement is false and totally misleading. Following are some of the scientific studies that demonstrate thimerosal, a mercury-containing substance that is used as a preservative, to be harmful and to be a highly probably causal factor in autism. Note that these studies are consistently ignored in the medical establishment’s publications claiming that there is no evidence for vaccine-caused autism.

1 Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T. Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Med. Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71. PMID: 11339848

2 Geier DA, Geier MR. An assessment of the impact of thimerosal on childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. Pediatr Rehabil. 2003 Apr-Jun;6(2):97-102. PMID: 14534046

3 Geier MR, Geier DA. Neurodevelopmental disorders after thimerosal-containing vaccines: a brief communication. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2003Jun;228(6):660-4. PMID: 12773696

4 Geier & Geier. Parents' worries about thimerosal in vaccines are well founded! http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/112/6/1394

5 David Baskin, M.D. et al. Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, caspase-3 activation, membrane damage, and cell death in cultured human neurons and fibroblasts. Toxicol Sci. 2003 Aug;74(2):361-8. Epub 2003 May 28. PMID: 12773768

6 Mady Hornig, M.D Etiologic factors and pathogenesis of autism: evidence from clinical studies and animal models. IOM presentation, Feb 9 2004 Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19108

7 Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. Effects of Mercury on Methionine Synthase: Implications for Disordered Methylation in Autism DAN! 2003 Philadelphia -http://216.117.159.91/powerpoint/dan2003/RichardDeth.htm

8 Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. A Link Between Thimerosal and the Brain: Can Vaccines Affect Central Nervous System Function? Molecular Psychiatry 2004, Volume 9.

9 Vojdani A, Pangborn JB et al. Infections, toxic chemicals and dietary peptides binding to lymphocyte receptors and tissue enzymes are major instigators of autoimmunity in autism. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2003 Sep-Dec;16(3):189-99. PMID: 14611720

10 Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. A Case-control Study of Mercury Burden in Children with Autistic Disorders and Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Children with Regressive Autism. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004 Slides: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18578 - Audio: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19130

11 Valsamakis A et al. Altered virulence of vaccine strains of measles virus after prolonged replication in human tissue. J Virol. 1999 73(10): 8791-7. PMID 10482633 http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/73/10/8791.pdf

The CDC's original findings before the CDC began to manipulate the data, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act: High risk values for thimerosal injections and a range of neurologic problems, including ADHD, tics, language problems, and autism. http://factsformedia.com/factsformedia/thimerosalstudy.pdf

Excerpts from CDC’s in-house conference: Thimerosal sequelae

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/IOM%20Simpsonwood%20in%20bold.pdf

12 Congressman, Dr. Weldon's letter to the CDC director, available at:

http://momsonamissionforautism.org/Autism_Central/Dr_Weldon_Responds.shtml

Institute of Medicine presentation of Congressman Dave Weldon, M.D. - http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/Weldon.pdf

13 Geier MR, Geier DA. Autism and thimerosal-containing vaccines: analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004. Slides: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18392 -- Audio: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19120

14 David Baskin, M.D. Relation of Neurotoxic Effects of Thimerosal to Autism. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004. Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19124

[ii] All of the basic statistics found in this report are from the United States, which holds approximately 1/20th of the world’s population. There according to Dr. Mark Grier the overall neurodevelopmental damage that can be sourced to mercury toxicity runs into 2,402,505 cases, millions with a devastating line up of other neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, autism and AD. We have thousands of children found dead from vaccines in the federal data bases in the United States, which report only a fraction (10 percent according to officials at the FDA), many kids dead from Sudden Death Syndrome (many of which who should be counted as vaccine provoked death) many babies dead from Shaken Baby Syndrome (where parents are accused of killing their kids instead of the vaccines and the mercury and other chemicals contained therein) and officially, according to studies published in reputable medical journals between 250,00 and 786,000 iatrogenic deaths, in the United States alone. Both reports (Dr. Starfield in the New England Journal of Medicine who reports 250,00 deaths agrees with Dr Null et al, who reported 786,000 in a Journal of Nutrition, both agree that 106,000 die each year from properly subscribed medicines.) On a world wide level it is impossible to track the numbers and whether they would be directly proportional, meaning multiply all the numbers by 20, or greater or lesser. Many complex factors must be taken into consideration. For example in Africa, where populations are starving and malnourished, they administer vaccines in a totally contraindicated fashion (to populations with severely weakened immune systems) thus increasing the collateral damages and deaths.

[iii] Haley, Boyd. Dangers of Mercury Based Amalgam Dental Fillings. Prestented to The Committee on Governmental Reform: Dental Amalgam Hearing on 14 November 2002

http://hem.passagen.se/ethysell/dokument/Denmatu/bilaga1.html?k

[iv] Kennedy Ron MD. Dental Amalgam Mercury Poisoning

http://www.medical -library.net/sites/_dental_amalgam_mercury_poisoning.html

[v] Haley Boyd. In response to an article on the ADA web site by the AD.

http://www.whale.to/m/haley.html

[vi] Independent Chemist, M.Sc., retired The Real Scientific Truth of Amalgam, The Behavior of Mercury in the Body Causing Chronic Diseases.

http://www.laleva.cc/choice/mercury_cronicdis.html

[vii] Mercury can cause a bewildering variety of diseases. According to Andrew Cutler, who has a PhD in chemistry from Princeton,  “Modern physicians are not trained to find the root cause of a sick person's problems. They are trained to translate what they see into latin, look it up in their textbook, and apply a cookbook treatment. With a toxin that poisons fundamental metabolic processes different people will experience different symptoms to start off, depending on their own individual biochemistry. As the poisoning becomes more and more serious, further symptoms surface and the modern doctor adds more diagnoses - a patient who starts with depression might later be considered to have hypothyroidism, allergies and asthma in addition. But no thought is given to why one person should develop more and more "diseases," when a single diagnosis - chronic mercury poisoning - could account for them all. Some of the "diseases" a modern physician might mistakenly misdiagnose chronic mercury poisoning as are:  

Addison's disease

Gastritis

Allergies

Hypogonadism

Alzheimer's' disease

Hypothyroidism

Amylotrophic lateral sclerosis

Infertility

Ankylosing spondylitis

Insomnia

Anorexia nervosa

Irritable bowel syndrome

Anxiety

Juvenile arthritis

Asthma

Learning disabilities

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Lupus erythromatosus

Autoimmune disease

Manic depression

Bipolar disorder

Multiple chemical sensitivities

Borderline personality disorder 

Multiple sclerosis

Bulimia

Myasthenia gravis

Candidiasis

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Chronic fatigue

Panic attacks

Colitis

Parkinson's disease

Crohn's disease

Pervasive developmental disorder

Depression

Psychosis

Endocrine disorders

Rheumatoid arthritis

Environmental illness

Schizophrenia

Fibromyalgia

Sciatica

Food allergies

Sleep disorders

 

Yeast syndrome

[viii] A good graph of contagious disease incidence, which begins at 1900 (or earlier), will show a picture of death, disease incidence and severity that declined by 90% (average) before vaccine introduction. Plague and scarlet fever declined without vaccine. Measles declined in mortality 99.7% before vaccine introduction. At some point we might inevitably conclude that vaccine ‘necessity’ is a sales gimmick not a scientific reality. “Scientific medicine has taken credit it does not deserve for some advances in health. Most people believe that victory over the infectious diseases of the last century came with the invention of immunizations. In fact, cholera, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, etc, were in decline before vaccines for them became available - the result of better methods of sanitation, sewage disposal, and distribution of food and water,” wrote Greg Beattie in ‘Vaccination: a Parent’s Dilemma.’

 

U.S.A. DEATHS

 

Diphtheria

Pertussis

Tetanus

Measles

1901

48,839

33,094

28,065

11,956

1911

20,350

20,285

11,503

7,615

1921

12,267

14,724

7,818

4,919

1931

4,388

9,850

4,709

2,957

1941

1,135

4,399

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