Bill Couzens Founder, Lesscancer.org

And for your information, thimerosal is still used in vaccines today, other than the flu vaccine. All it takes is a little research to find the package inserts, like here: http://www.vaccineshoppe.com/US_PDF/ActHIB_5122_08.03.06.pdf.

http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_inserts.htm has a good list of package inserts for various vaccines.

The words you use to describe the certain disasters of not vaccinating are well placed, and they are all too common by vaccine proponents to scare people. You use words such as "deadly" or "debilitating" to describe the terrible side effects of “Vaccine preventable diseases”. Why is it that people in favor of vaccines, such as yourself, do not discuss the "deadly" or "debilitating" side effects of receiving a vaccine that in no way is a guarantee of not getting xyz disease? As for control groups, I don't think it would be accurate to compare children of developing countries to children of this country. Developing countries do not have the sanitation, cleanliness, and hygiene of this country. These are key factors to the decline of diseases, not vaccines.

Don't get me wrong, my opposition to vaccines does not mean that I don't think drugs are beneficial and life saving when used properly. But trusting the FDA to ensure the safety of these drugs is a joke. My faith goes away when FDA members sit on the Boards of the very pharma companies whose drugs they approve. I lose trust in the FDA when it allows for the deception of labeling of Trans Fat as 0g, despite the fact that hydrogenated oils are listed on the ingredient list and in spite of the fact that the Institue of Medicine says that there is no safe level of trans fat in the diet. By the way, I don't eat trans fat so I can mark that off of the list of possible causes for my pending heart attack.

I agree with the posters who say that there are far too many claims of "my child was fine until (s)he) received X or Y vaccination." Where there's smoke, there's fire. After my first child was diagnosed with speech delay, I slowed down my second child's receipt of vaccinations. No more than two at any given time, MMR alone, and only after she reached two years old (without anything else it is already THREE vaccines), and NOTHING WITH THIMEROSAL. Period. I think there is something wrong with introducing 25+ toxins into a baby's system over a period of just 22 months. It's unsurprising that some children simply cannot handle that much. Furthermore, why would we ever introduce mercury – IN ANY FORM – into a baby's body? We don't need preservatives in this country; there is no reason why vaccinations cannot be shipped and stored in single doses.

I have read extensively on how thimerosal can cross the blood-brain barrier, particularly in children with "leaky gut syndrome" – or who have had gastrointestinal issues – chronic constipation and/or diarrhea. These often persist after the vaccinations – particularly MMR. A British researcher published in the Lancet some years ago his findings that a disproportionate number of children on the autism spectrum had lesions in their intestines, with measles titres concentrated there as well. These findings were explosive at the time.

I would strongly encourage anyone whose child has been diagnosed on the autism spectrum to read "Children With Starving Brains" for help with diets that can heal the gut, and literally everything written by Dr. Stanley Greenspan. A combination of nutritional and behavioral therapies has helped countless parents of children in the spectrum. DON'T GIVE UP!