September 29, 2004 

Although they afflict widely different age groups, autism and Alzheimer's disease share a common cause: mercury. Dr. Boyd Haley, professor and chair of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Bernard Rimland, founder of the Autism Research Institute, presented evidence at this year's Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting that connects mercury with these diseases.

This heavy metal is highly poisonous. A Dartmouth professor studying the chemical characteristics of an organic form of mercury - dimethyl mercury - spilled two drops of it on her gloved hand. The first sign of mercury poisoning occurred four months later when her speech began to be slurred. This was followed by difficulty walking and loss of vision. She then fell into a coma and died. Another person, attempting to smelt the silver in dental amalgams he obtained (they are 35 percent silver, 50 percent mercury, and 15 percent tin, zinc, and other metals), heated them in a frying pan. The mercury vapor thus generated killed him quickly. The two other family members in the house at the time also died.

Another influenza season is beginning in the northern temperate zone, and our government's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will strongly urge Americans to get a flu shot. Health officials will say that every winter 5-20 percent of the population catches the flu, 200,000 people are hospitalized, and 36,000 people will die from it.

The CDC's 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations each year on who should be vaccinated. Ten years ago, for the 1999-2000 season, the committee recommended that people over age 65 and children with medical conditions have a flu shot. Seventy-four million people were vaccinated. Next season (2000-01) the committee lowered the age for universal vaccination from 65 to 50 years old, adding 41 million people to the list. For the 2002-03 season, the ACIP added healthy children 6 months to 23 months old, and for 2004-05, children up to 5 years old. For the 2008-09 season the committee has advised that healthy children 6 months to 18 years old have a flu shot each year. Its recommendations for influenza vaccination now covers 256 million Americans - 84 percent of the U.S. population. Only healthy people ages 19-49 not involved in some aspect of health care remain exempt. Pharmaceutical companies have made 146 million influenza vaccines for the U.S. market this flu season.

Almost all the ACIP members who make these recommendations have financial ties to the vaccine industry. The CDC therefore must grant each member a conflict-of-interest waiver.

Archie Kalokerinos, MD

In 1976 I was working in the far north of Australia amongst Aborigines. I observed, in one community of only a few hundred people, when they were given the flu vaccine (probably the Victorian strain but this detail does not really matter because nobody outside a few selected individuals really knows what is in any particular batch), six men died suddenly soon afterwards. They were not all 'old'. One was in his early twenties. A few weeks later, in another community I found that individuals with heart or potential heart problems or diabetes were particularly likely to drop dead soon after being given the vaccine.  

Obviously, there was a problem with some batches of the flu vaccine.

A few months later I was in America. President Ford had been told by his hea

It seems appropriate at this point to explain how I became a heretic to "establishment" medicine and rediscovered the true roots of the real "orthodox" medicine. For more than twenty years I practiced establishment medicine. I truly believed and was extremely proud that I was among the elite of the healing arts, the real physician, the true physician - I was an "M.D.!" If you asked me fifteen years ago what I thought about the other healers, I would have, in no uncertain words, attacked them as practicing unscientific witchcraft. My salvation as a true physician, unbeknownst to me, began very early in my career. I yearned for better answers and instinctively was attracted to anything new and different as long as it did no harm. It would take me many years, however, before I was to question the benefit of the basic allopathic philosophy and the methods in which I had been trained.