Generation Rescue

Teresa Binstock
Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
January 21, 2010

The English language may need a new word, Iatrogenecist.

Consider a summary of the words iatrogenesis and iatrogenic:
According to Wikipedia, “The terms iatrogenesis and iatrogenic artifact refer to inadvertent adverse effects or complications caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice. In addition to harmful consequences of actions by physicians, iatrogenesis can also refer to actions by other healthcare professionals, such as psychologists, therapists, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, and others. Iatrogenesis is not restricted to conventional medicine and can also result from complementary and alternative medicine treatments.” (1)

As suggested by a Google search which generated no urls for the word iatrogenecist (2), perhaps the term “iatrogenecist” needs be added to the English language.

My concern arises from trends in autism research. When the CDC’s Verstaeten and colleagues first studied adverse effects of thimerosal injections, autism, tics, and sleep disorders were among the significant associations (3).  Rather than issue warnings against thimerosal injections, Verstraeten et al proceeded to dilute their own data and to publish a diluted-data version in the journal Pediatrics (4).

In contrast, researchers not affiliated with the CDC have confirmed the CDC’s original findings regarding thimerosal’s adverse effects (eg, 5-8), even as various “experts” continue to assert that thimerosal-containing vaccinations do no harm (eg, 9-10). Indeed, in a peer-reviewed thimerosal review that omitted inculpatory evidence about thimerosal’s adverse effects,  methylmercury specialist Michael Aschner and colleague wrote, “…one cannot rule out the possibility that the individual gene profile and/or gene–environment interactions may play a role in modulating the response to acquired risk by modifying the individual susceptibility.” (11; see also 14)

Amid these conflicting findings, questions remain: Why are thimerosal injections being deliberately continued?  Is the purpose to induce pathologies associated with prescription medications?  A recently published study reported that among 286 adolescents and young adults, 70% were taking a prescription medication (12). This finding suggests that if thimerosal-containing vaccinations are helping increase rates of autism and other developmental disabilities for which pharmaceutical medications are often prescribed, then the market for such drugs is to some extent founded upon the iatrogenic procedure of injecting thimerosal during vaccinations. Indeed, the profitability of iatrogenic medicine is highlighted in a citation-filled book by Grace E. Jackson, M.D., who describes “drug-induced dementia” (13).

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The Washington Post

January 28, 2009

MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) — Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.

HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.

“Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply,” the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.

In the first study, published in current issue of Environmental Health, researchers found detectable levels of mercury in nine of 20 samples of commercial HFCS.

And in the second study, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a non-profit watchdog group, found that nearly one in three of 55 brand-name foods contained mercury. The chemical was found most commonly in HFCS-containing dairy products, dressings and condiments.

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Comment from Leslie

Although the article is a year old – it is important to read.  Fructose is a poisons. Fructose with mercury is a poison.  Fructose with mercury and an exposure to aluminum is lethal.  Think of the diet of teenage girls (soda, Gatorade) especially athletes…..tons of Gatorade.  Fructose and the aluminum in Gardasil a part of the deadly cocktail?

Read the complete article and related information at Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury

Progressiveconvergence.com

12.18.09

Reports of women who have had miscarriages right after getting the H1N1 vaccine.  Names are being gathered and verified everyday. The list will get longer and longer.

1.  EBWashington:
I am so upset. I was so excited to be pregnant after trying for a year. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I joined this birth club and I was due June 25th. We have two healthy boys with no history of miscarriage. Everything was going great. Last Monday, I got the H1N1 vaccine thimerosal reduced (mercury reduced for pregnant women). On Tuesday morning, I started cramping and on Wednesday I started bleeding heavily. My hcg was 50 on Wednesday and I was almost 6 weeks along so it was low. They still thought that I might be pregnant but on Friday my hcg was down to 22. I am an emotional wreck. I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven’t been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages. I hope that I did not cause this. I wish everyone the best.

2. Tayla08
I don’t have an answer for you, but a friend of a friend just had a miscarriage 2-3 days after getting the shot. She was 7weeks. She had no previous history of m/c… No one can answer if they’re related…it hasn’t been out long enough and there haven’t been any studies done on pregnant women. I will tell you, that it has made up my mind on getting it…I won’t and I’m not going to get it for my DD either. My daughter and I both had H1N1 last week, and although it truly sucks…I think I’ll take my chances. One doctor will tell you to get it and the next will tell you not too…you have to do what’s in your heart.

3. 90707
My heart goes out to you as i recently miscarried as well and was due in June. I had a healthy heart beat at 6wks. then at 7.5 wks my son got the h1n1 mist vaccine which has live vaccine in it. the nurse said to be careful b/c it could technically spread if he rubbed his nose and touched a surface etc. the next night i miscarried and 5 days later was diagnosed with . I work from home, kids are home, hadn’t been anywhere during that time. so the chances that it is all related are very high. The flu mist vaccine warns for immunocompromised patients (which includes prego) to stay away from recipients of the flu mist for 21 days.

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American Chronicle

September 28, 2009

By Christina England

As reports flood in, of a participant in the German H1N1 vaccine trials coughing up blood, fear mounts as the swine flu vaccines become mandatory in some states of the USA. As expected the LMU-Medical Researcher, Frank von Sonnenburg heading the German trials denies these side-effects saying that they cannot be attributed to the vaccine. However the once fit businessman Axel Sch feels differently saying that the test is irresponsible :-

“The vaccination has made me ill! – the test is irresponsible, I felt totally beat. On the third day, my kidneys and head were aching and I got a fever. I then had a coughing fit – and the wash basin was suddenly red – it was blood!” RBN – Republic Broadcasting Network – Swine Flu vaccination: An Injured subject speaks out as researchers deny link

While the H1N1 flu vaccine has been given the go ahead around the world, with many countries about to start vaccination programmes at any time and with the WHO announcing that drug firms can make enough vaccine to vaccinate half the planet It is difficult to know who to trust.

What the public need are facts and facts are not what the agencies promoting this vaccine are willing to give. How can the public trust agencies and Governments that continually lie to us?

One important fact, seriously being overlooked, is the fact that ‘Thimerosal’ is being used as a component in this vaccine. If thimerosal was safe then why were the public led to believe that it was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001 ? That is right thimerosal was never taken out of childhood vaccines it was reduced to a trace in some and never taken out at all in others. However, at the time the public were told that thimerosal was being taken out of childhood vaccines. We were all misled in a bid to return our confidence in vaccines.

In 2007 Glaxo Smith Kline was telling the world that they had removed thimerosal from childhood vaccines due to parents fear over safety Thimerosal Removed From Vaccine Amid Autism Fears Yet two years later they put it back in H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine about to be given to children.

Dr Anders Bruun Laursen stated the following in an article August 2009 What’s the danger of swine flu vaccination

“Then I addressed the Danish Medicinal Agency. They admitted that the Pandremix vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline does contain squalene and thimerosal.

They have not rejected my remark that the squalene concentration is dangerous. In contrast, the AstraZeneca MedImmune nasal vaccination
(8) avoids squalene side effects.”

So clearly Glaxo Smith Kline took thimerosal out of childhood vaccines amid parents fears of it being the cause of Autism and hoped to sneak it back in whilst parents were not looking. Only this time they decide to add squalene and aluminium as added extras.

Squalene is another exceptionally dangerous chemical. This is what Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner who conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines wrote;-

“Squalene “contributed to the cascade of reactions called “Gulf War syndrome”. (GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Sjorgren’s syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever.”

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Jeffry John Aufderheide
VacTRUTH
09/11/09

(*** EDITORS NOTE: THIS JUST IN, FDA APPROVES SWINE VACCINE PRIOR TO CHILDREN SAFETY STUDY BEGINNING!!!! SEE ARTICLE HERE. )

See for yourself the study presented at the end of article. Please spread the word and make this go viral… no pun intended. Kindly reference and link to VacTRUTH!

(vactruth.com)  Trials for the experimental H1N1 Swine flu vaccine commence Tuesday, September 15th in Thornton, Colorado. Novartis, a bio-pharmaceutical company that manufactures the vaccine,  is recommending that children participating in the trial receive two doses of an experimental vaccine which contain ingredients found in spermicides, cleaners, and cosmetics along with thimerosal and squalene (MF59). Everyone should have a sense of concern as the only safety checks for these children are a few blood draws and follow-up phone calls. No neurological testing. No kidding.

Official opinions from federal agencies, such as the CDC, insist that the new vaccine will be safe and effective. Experts say we can trust the new H1N1 experimental vaccine because the technology used to create the vaccine is time tested. Experts argue that the only variable changing from the ‘normal’ flu vaccine and the H1N1 experimental vaccine is the novel A/H1N1 antigen. In other words, the same vaccine ‘technology’ is used but with the new virus.

However, this is the furthest thing from the actual TRUTH. As will be demonstrated, the following information was obtained through enrolling a family member into the study to gain an understanding as to what the ingredients would be.  After finding out the the information I am about to share, enrollment in this trial has been canceled.

SETTING THE STAGE ON SAFETY AND SQUALENE (MF59)

I met with the research coordinator for the study along with Dr. Melamed, an immunologist conducting the study. Dr. Melamed altruistically shared his knowledge answering questions concerning immunology and the technology behind the vaccine while remaining evasive on questions of what was in the vaccine and legal ramifications if harm was done. Dr. Melamed reassured me several times that the experimental H1N1 vaccine was created just like past vaccines and that the technology was well established.

Requests for package inserts for the ingredients of the experimental H1N1 vaccine were denied on the grounds that this was a study and that information is privileged. However, we can still piece together some of the ingredients based upon the parental consent form.

“MF59 is an adjuvant which is used in influenza vaccines licensed for the adults and/or elderly in many countries worldwide, but it is not contained in any vaccines currently approved in the United States.” (page 2)

Isn’t it interesting that the study states it is licensed for adults and elderly? This study is designed for children between the ages of 3 and 8 and they plan on shooting up newborns and pregnant women with this stuff? Buyer beware.

Here is what the World Association for Vaccine Education had to say about Squalene (MF59):

Squalene:C30H50 an Adjuvant

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny also elaborates on the deleterious effects of the Squalene Adjuvant in a 2006 article entitled, “FLU SHOTS AND THE NEW ADJUVANTS: BEWARE!” and can be found in its entirety here. An excerpt from Dr. Tenpenny’s article can give a better appreciation and understanding of what squalene is capable of in the body…

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Generation Rescue

Teresa Binstock
Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
September 07, 2009

Introduction: An increasing body of peer-reviewed evidence indicates that when a woman is pregnant, transiently elevated cytokines can induce atypical brain development in her embryo or fetus. Illnesses and vaccinations induce elevation of cytokines, and these elevations can be heightened in individuals with alleles of genes related to immune responses. An implication of citations supporting these relationships is that vaccinating pregnant women is likely to induce cognitive and behavioral pathologies in as least some children whose mothers were vaccinated while the child was in utero. Schizophrenia and developmental disabilities are pathologies that may ensue.

Stacy Bilbo & Jaclyn Schwarz have written an important review, “Early-life programming of later-life brain and behavior: a critical role for the immune system”. 
      The peer-reviewed paper is free online (1) and is especially relevant amid recommendations that pregnant women be vaccinated for seasonal influenza and for lab-related H1N1 swine flu. Evidence discussed by Bilbo & Schwarz prompts a question: Will vaccinating pregnant women induce cytokine elevations likely to damage the embryonic or fetal brain of at least some women? 
        Published studies indicate that (i) transiently elevated cytokines can alter brain development in utero, and (ii) illnesses and vaccinations cause elevated levels of various cytokines. These two factors indicate that at least some women will have children who develop untoward traits induced in utero as a result of their mother’s having been vaccinated during pregnancy.
        Because cytokines are complex (2), only two will be considered here, interleukin-6 and interleukin-1beta (IL-6, IL-1b).

Interleukin-6 and interleukin-1beta are among the cytokines elevated by influenza vaccination (3-6). These elevations parallel those induced by influenza itself.
        Current recommendations for a seasonal-influenza vaccination accompanied by one or two swine flu (H1N1) vaccinations need be considered in regard to the following: “There are several reports in humans that influenza infection induces cytokine production by the maternal immune system, the fetal immune system, and the placenta…, and each has been linked to increased risk of schizophrenia in the offspring…” (1, citing 7-9; see also 10).

In addition to increased risk for schizophrenia, maternal cytokines (especially IL-1b) induced by vaccinating pregnant women may alter the subsequent child’s cognitive skills related to memory (reviewed in 1). As one researcher summarizes, “Prenatal exposure to infection appears to increase the risk of schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental disorders.” (8)

Clarification: This essay is not asserting that ALL pregnant women who receive injections of anti-influenza vaccine and/or injections of anti-H1N1 vaccine (many brands of which will contain thimerosal and/or squalene) will give birth to a child who later develops schizophrenia or a developmental disorder. Instead, the evidence cited in this essay indicates that, among women who receive one or more vaccinations during pregnancy and thereby experience cytokines elevations that affect her fetus, there will be an increased risk for having a child who, some years later, will develop schizophrenia or a developmental disability.

A pregnant woman’s options are discomforting. If she develops swine flu or seasonal influenza, she may induce cytokine elevations which adversely affect her fetus. If she allows herself to be vaccinated during pregnancy, her body’s reaction will include cytokine elevations which may adversely affect brain development of some fetuses – and do in ways that become apparent only during early childhood, adolescence, or young adulthood (reviewed in 1).

For individuals with a technical bent, the Bilbo and Schwarz review is recommended (1). In short, it summarizes known effects of maternal elevations of interleukin-6 and interleukin-1beta. Additionally, the review elaborates increasing evidence supporting the “two hit” hypothesis, wherein an in utero event such as transiently elevated cytokines induces fetal changes which potentiate more serious sequelae pursuant to postnatal events in the offspring (eg, illness).

Media reports tell us that the safety of swine flu vaccinations will be evaluated. However, some reports have mentioned that thimerosal or squalene may not be present in the vaccines tested early, thus raising questions about “safety” pronouncements we’ll be hearing. Furthermore, if the influenza or swine flu vaccinations’ adverse events include developmental disabilities and schizophrenia, which will occur some years after the vaccinating of pregnant women, the monitoring of those adverse events will be impossible in the months ahead.

More generally, we ask if vaccinologists are prone to hubris? Their willingness to inject thimerosal and squalene (MF59) despite voluminous evidence of harm caused by those substances appalls. An autism parent raises an important issue (11), are many and perhaps most vaccinologists rushing forth while ignoring advances in immunology, while ignoring findings which indicate why some individuals are more likely to experience adverse effects from vaccinations, especially during pregnancy?

Postscript: This essay calls attention to adverse effects induced by cytokines elevated by vaccinations and only briefly mentions adverse effects induced by thimerosal (12) and by squalene (13). Not considered is the additive or synergistic effects of the three components: cytokine elevations, squalene, and thimerosal.

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American ChronicleBy Christina EnglandAugust 30, 2009

On the 28th August 2009, in the UK a man narrowly escaped a jail sentence when he poisoned his wife’s tea with mercury in a bid ‘TO SAVE THEIR MARRIAGE’. His wife had decided to leave him so he decided to put mercury in her tea and poison her, to make her ill so he could nurse her back to health and she would love him again. Suspended term for tea poison man the BBC News reports:-

“A man who poisoned his estranged wife’s tea with mercury has been given a 350-day suspended sentence. William Dowling, 69, from Colne, Lancashire, poisoned 64-year-old Maureen Dowling’s drink so she would become ill and dependent on him.”

Mercury left Mrs Dowling feeling frail after her ordeal.

“She suffered symptoms including forgetfulness, indigestion and headaches, but experts said the mercury had no serious adverse effect on her health.

But police later said she had been left feeling “very fragile, both physically and mentally” by her ordeal.”

Reading the above it appears that mercury in small doses in tea made this woman very sick. She was ‘forgetful’ this indicates a possible interference with her memory. So it stands to reason if mercury has this effect on a grown women, it will harm tiny babies with developing brains.

It appears however that in the UK it is illegal to put mercury in someones tea but not in a vaccine!

Drug companies have for years now been putting mercury or ‘Thimerosal’ in vaccines as a preservative to stop contamination. It was said to be phased out of vaccines in 1999, however this was misleading as it never left them entirely and can still be found in some childhood vaccines including the seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 Swine flu vaccination.

Many say it causes Autism, epilepsy and other neurological conditions. The National Autistic Association agree. On their site they state:-

Taken directly from the National Autistic Association website

Thimerosal

Thimerosal is an inorganic mercury compound that is metabolized to ethylmercury and thiosalicylate and has been present since the 1930´s as a preservative in some vaccines and pharmaceutical products to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination

THE FACTS:

1.Mercury is hazardous to humans. The use of a toxic poison as a preservative is undesirable, unnecessary and should be eliminated entirely.

2.For decades, ethylmercury was used extensively in medical products ranging from vaccines to topical ointments as preservative and an anti-bacteriological agent.

3.Manufacturers of vaccines and thimerosal, (an ethylmercury compound used in vaccines), have never conducted adequate testing on the safety of thimerosal. The FDA has never required manufacturers to conduct adequate safety testing on thimerosal and ethylmercury compounds. Current evidence suggests thimerosal is neither “safe nor effective” when used as a preservative in vaccines.

4.There are over 1500 studies and papers documenting the hypoallergenicity and toxicity of thimerosal (ethylmercury) have existed for decades.

5.The United States is in the midst of a tragic epidemic of autism. An analysis of the US Department of Education data from 1992-1993 in comparison to 2000-2001 indicates that there has been an average increase of 644% among all US children.  In addition, 13 states have reported an almost infinite or infinite increase in autism from 1992-1993 in comparison to 2000-2001. A review of children in US schools indicates that approximately 1 in 9 children in the US is currently disabled by the US Department of Education Statistics (see attachment).Recent studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Pediatrics have confirmed the autism epidemic is real and not due to changes in diagnosis, populational changes nor is it explained by other factors.

6.At the same time that the incidence of autism was growing, the number of childhood vaccines containing thimerosal was growing, increasing the amount of ethylmercury to which infants were exposed threefold.

7.A growing number of scientists and researchers believe that a relationship between the increase in neurodevelopmental disorders of autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and speech or language delay, and the increased use of thimerosal in vaccines is plausible and deserves more scrutiny. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine determined that such a relationship is biologically plausible, but that not enough evidence exists to support or reject this hypothesis. Recent studies have confirmed the association between the use of thimerosal and autism has moved from “biologically plausible” to a “biological certainty” (Boyd Haley).Recent work by Dr. Mark Geier and David Geier in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons and Experimental Biology and Medicine have shown strong epidemiological evidence for a causal relationship between thimerosal and neurodevelopmental disorders in children.

8.The FDA acted too slowly to remove ethylmercury from over-the-counter products like topical ointments and skin creams. Although an advisory committee determined that ethylmercury was unsafe in these products in 1980, a rule requiring its removal was not finalized until 1998.

9.The FDA and the CDC failed in their duty to be vigilant as new vaccines containing thimerosal were approved and added to the immunization schedule. When the Hepatitis B and Haemophilus Influenzae Type b vaccines were added to the recommended schedule of childhood immunizations, the cumulative amount of ethylmercury to which children were exposed nearly tripled.

10.The amount of ethylmercury to which children were exposed through vaccines prior to the 1999 announcement exceeded two safety thresholds established by the Federal Government for a closely related substance – methylmercury. While the Federal Government has established no safety threshold for ethylmercury, experts agree that the methylmercury guidelines are a good substitute. Federal health officials have conceded that the amount of thimerosal in vaccines exceeded the EPA threshold of 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of bodyweight. In fact, the amount of mercury in one dose of DTaP or Hepatitis B vaccines (25 micrograms each) exceeded this threshold many times over. Federal health officials have not conceded that this amount of thimerosal in vaccines exceeded the FDA’s more relaxed threshold of 0.4 micrograms per kilogram of body weight. In most cases, however, it clearly did. As evidence of the growing concern of the adverse effects of mercury, the FDA has recently changed its permissible dose of oral methylmercury from 0.4 microgram to 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day.

11.The actions taken by the HHS to remove thimerosal from vaccines in 1999 were not sufficiently aggressive. As a result, thimerosal remained in some vaccines for an additional two years. Thimerosal remains in several vaccines and with the addition of the influenza vaccine now being recommended for infants, children are exposed to more thimerosal today than ever before.

12.The CDC’s failure to state a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines in 2000 and again in 2001 was an abdication of their responsibility. As a result, many children received vaccines containing thimerosal when thimerosal-free alternatives were available.

13.Thimerosal should be removed from all of these vaccines. No amount of mercury is appropriate in any childhood vaccine.

14.The CDC in general and the National Immunization Program in particular are conflicted in their duties to monitor the safety of vaccines, while also charged with the responsibility of purchasing vaccines for resale as well as promoting increased immunization rates.

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Telegraph.co.uk
August 28, 2009

A pensioner, William Dowling, who poisoned his estranged wife by putting mercury in her tea in a misguided attempt to win her back has escaped jail.

Dowling, 69, of Colne, Lancashire, duped Maureen Dowling into drinking tea laced with mercury on at least five occasions because he planned to win her affection, when she became ill, by nursing her back to health.

He received a 350-day prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Preston Crown Court today. Judge Robert Brown also imposed an 18-month supervision order.

The electrician admitted administering a poison or noxious substance with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy between January and April.

Mrs Dowling, 64, a cleaner, suffered symptoms including forgetfulness, indigestion and headaches but experts ruled the mercury had no serious adverse effect on her health.

The maximum possible sentence Dowling faced was five years in jail, the court heard. Judge Brown told Dowling that his wife of 28 years left him because “she had become fed-up of what she regarded as your controlling attitude towards her”.

“In judging the seriousness of the crime you committed, your … wanting her to return to your care is irrelevant,” he said. “What is relevant is that you are not a medical expert and it follows from that that it was more by good luck than anything else that your wife did not suffer serious harm.”

Judge Brown told Dowling, who is deaf in one ear and limps as a result of a stroke 10 years ago: “After the separation she continued to visit you on a regular basis and you provided her, from time to time, with meals and refreshments.

“There is no question here of her becoming involved with another person but you were not satisfied with your situation and you decided to engineer her return to live with you, and the way that you went about it was to administer to her a series of doses of mercury mixed in with her cups of tea.

“That was not only a wicked way of treating your wife it was also potentially fatal. Fortunately your plan was discovered before any serious harm had been caused.”

Judge Brown said that despite the fact Mrs Dowling suffered from ill health, the levels of mercury found in her body were no higher “than was to be expected in the general population”.

He suspended the sentence after acknowledging that Dowling’s early guilty plea, his previous good character, and the fact that he was “well respected and liked” in his community and had shown “genuine remorse”.

The court had heard Mrs Dowling moved out of the marital home in Linden Road four years ago but continued to visit regularly.

Mark Lamberty, prosecuting, said she visited her estranged husband on Friday February 13 last year.

“The defendant made her a cup of tea and as was customary poured that in a white china beaker with a yellow floral motif. While she was drinking it she noticed what appeared to her to be ball bearings at the bottom of the cup.

“She showed that to her daughter Julie and commented she had noticed that in her cup before and it always appeared to be the situation that the defendant made the tea.

“She said there were four or five occasions she had noticed that in the past. She commented and he riposted ‘they must be coming off the kettle’ and in another comment ‘they must be coming off the teabags’.”

Mr Lamberty said that when Julie, 43, examined the contents of the cup, which appeared to be liquid metal, “the defendant seized the cup from her, threw the contents into the bin and appeared agitated”.

When Mrs Dowling noticed the silvery substance in her tea cup the following week the defendant told her he really must clean the kettle, Mr Lamberty said.

Dowling was arrested on April 1. Mr Lamberty said that when officers searched his home they spotted him sliding the floral china mug, which had mercury in the bottom of it, into a drawer.

He told officers: “I hid it because I know what would happen if you found it.”

Mr Lamberty said Dowling had delivered a “poisoned chalice” to his wife. Quoting from Macbeth, he said: “This even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips.”

He said the effects on Mrs Dowling were “devastating” and had caused her to lose her self confidence and created a family rift.

Paul Lewis, for the defence, said in mitigation that his client was known to be courteous and helpful and happy to give his time to help others.

“The actions he undertook were only intended to annoy his wife so she would feel the need for him to care for her and so resurrect their relationship. He had no intention to cause her any significant harm. His actions were ill thought out.”

Mr Lewis, quoting from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, suggested that because Mrs Dowling was able to work as a cleaner “the lady doth protest too much” about her symptoms of ill health.

Dowling, a father of two who has 14 grandchildren, declined to comment as he left court.

Comment from Leslie

Mercury – a posion if a husband uses it to make his wife ill.  Well, what about Big Pharma’s use of mercury in vaccines?  As far as the rest of the story is concerned…..I can only shake my head in despair.

Read the complete article and related information at Pensioner who put mercury in wife’s tea spared jail

How to avoid vaccine side effects, and keep your child safe from disease without risking other health problems, including autism.

The Daily Green

By Deirdre Imus

In 1983, the CDC vaccination schedule from birth to six years totaled 18 vaccines. Today, it’s 50.

Your baby’s first, and perhaps most important medical intervention is vaccinations. Starting from birth, parents can help ensure that the vaccines their children receive, and when they receive them, are as safe as possible. If you are preparing to immunize your child, consider the following:

Discuss with your doctor which vaccines are necessary for your child.
After all, one size doesn’t fit all.

Avoid immunizing when your child is sick or recently recovered from an illness.

Do not give your child a vaccine containing thimerosal.
Insist on thimerosal-free vaccines. Those on the CDC routine immunization schedule should be thimerosal-free. Those not on the routine schedule, including the flu shot, typically contain thimerosal. If you give the flu shot, a thimerosal-free version may need to be special-ordered by your pediatrician.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/chemical-free-kids/vaccine-side-effects-47081805#ixzz0OdwdOFEB

Read the complete article and related information at Chemical Free Kids – The 6 Do’s and Don’ts of Childhood Vaccines

Dr. Mercola

August 5, 2009

A new scientific study proves that the mercury-based compound used as vaccine preservative — known as ‘thimerosal’ — induces neural damage similar to that seen in autism patients.

According to the study, thimerosal-induced cellular damage caused concentration- and time-dependent mitochondrial damage, reduced oxidative-reduction activity, cellular degeneration, and cell death. Thimerosal at low concentrations induced significant cellular toxicity in human neuronal and fetal cells.

Thimerosal was found to be significantly more toxic than the other metal compounds examined.

Sources:

   DrProgram.net July 10, 2009

Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

I’m always pleased to see another study confirming what vaccine-safety advocates have tried to get across for so long—that the mercury-based preservative thimerosal is seriously bad news and should never be injected. I don’t know how much proof will be required take to get the truth to finally get through, but a mountain of evidence is apparently still not enough for some nay-sayers.

This latest study confirms that damage does occur in human neuronal and fetal cells, even at low concentrations.

As you’ve likely heard by now, rates of autism in the U.S. have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, rising right along with the increasing number of vaccinations added to the childhood vaccination schedule.

This oftentimes debilitating neurological disorder now affects about one in 150 U.S. children, but an article in the Daily Mail two years ago reported the rate of autism in Great Britain could be as high as 1 in 58.

Although autism may be apparent soon after birth, most autistic children experience at least several months, or even a year or more of normal development — followed by regression, defined as loss of function or failure to progress.

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