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| View Larger Image | Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
by David Kirby
| | List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $5.99 | | You Save: | $8.96 (60%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 37337 | | Studio: | St. Martin's Griffin | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 512 | | Publication Date: | February 21, 2006 | | Publisher: | St. Martin's Griffin |
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In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury.
Evidence of Harm explores the heated controversy over what many parents, physicians, public officials, and educators have called an "epidemic" of afflicted children. Following several families, David Kirby traces their struggle to understand how and why their once-healthy kids rapidly descended into silence or disturbed behavior, often accompanied by severe physical illness. Alarmed by the levels of mercury in the vaccine schedule, these families sought answers from their doctors, from science, from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and finally from the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration-to no avail. But as they dug deeper, the families also found powerful allies in Congress and in the small community of physicians and researchers who believe that the rise of autism and other disorders is linked to toxic levels of mercury that accumulate in the systems of some children.
An important and troubling book, Evidence of Harm reveals both the public and unsung obstacles faced by desperate families who have been opposed by the combined power of the federal government, health agencies, and pharmaceutical giants. From closed meetings of the FDA, CDC, and drug companies, to the mysterious rider inserted into the 2002 Homeland Security Bill that would bar thimerosal litigation, to open hearings held by Congress, this book shows a medical establishment determined to deny "evidence of harm" that might be connected with thimerosal and mercury in vaccines. In the end, as research is beginning to demonstrate, the questions raised by these families have significant implications for all children, and for those entrusted to oversee our national health.
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Avoiding hyperbole while writing about a possible medical catastrophe is no easy task, but David Kirby has created a fine balance of investigative and personal detail in Evidence of Harm. Combining stories from the parents of autistic children with reports, speeches and studies from researchers, pediatricians and government officials, he creates a picture that is as terrifying as anything dreamed up by Hitchcock. The topic at hand is determining whether high levels of organic mercury present in an inexpensive preservative used in vaccinations can cause either autism or autism-like symptoms. Kirby's in a delicate position, searching for the truth between frantic parents (he focuses on the founders of political action group Safe Mind) and the self-protective pharmaceutical industry (the author thanks the nameless person who placed a pro-Eli Lilly litigation rider into the Homeland Security Act of 2002). He's also honest enough of a reporter to admit to the temptation of deciding mercury is the culprit behind a range of disorders, even in light of some inconclusive test results. The ultimate truth isn't clear, and Kirby is direct about each of the reasons his sources have for their biased opinions. While some of the straight research reports will likely to go over the head of anyone not well versed in the terminology, the book is never dull--there is a continual urgency in the material that resists pedantry. However undecided the experts, readers will likely land firmly in one angry camp or the other. Jill Lightner |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 108 reviews)
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Disturbing Information 
I think this book does a good job of trying to account for both sides of the issue (the author states in the opening section that he still believes the vaccine program is the most important public health initiative). But you cannot overlook the disturbing governmental and pharma coverups for the sake of saving face and benefiting billions of dollars respectively. What these poor parents have suffered with their children and the children themselves! It is no wonder the public has a serious trust issue with the vaccine program as it stands even today.
July 10, 2008 | |
GOOD INFORMATION HARD TO READ 
I don't like how it was written. Very hard to read. I expected more facts rather then a story line. The book makes it hard to focus on the facts because your flipping back and forth between 10 different families and their stories. However, the information provided it very useful. Lots of research and facts. Very interesting.
May 14, 2008 | |
A Bigger Concern Than Just Mercury in Vaccines
A must-read book for anyone who's interested in knowing what may cause autism in some children. Whether anyone believes Mercury causes Autism or not, the fact is it should never have been in vaccines where it's injected into tiny babies. Not only is mercury toxic, but so is aluminum, antifreeze and other toxic ingredients in vaccines, to name a few. Monkey/human tissues in vaccines can also alter the DNA's of our children. It's no wonder children are at such a high risk of having autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, etc without a genetic cause. I truly believe the synergistic effects of all these toxins in our vaccines, food, plastics, and the air we breathe is the direct result of these disorders. Toxic chemicals are so ubiquitous in our environment and why add to that by putting it in vaccines. At least in other countries like Europe, they take a precautionary stance that if something "may" cause harm, then it should be banned. Here in America, they want absolute proof that harm is a direct result of certain toxins. We are treated as guinea pigs by the huge chemical/pharmaceutical companies out to make a profit and our children are the greatest victims. With the rising rates of cancer and autoimmune diseases (such as autism & diabetes), we should all be proactive in letting our government know that we want safer products, whether it be vaccines or toys. I urge all of you to read "Exposed" by Mark Shapiro to learn more about how our beloved country is the dumping ground for chemicals banned in other countries. While the EU has become the environmental leaders, we have become the environmental loser.
April 20, 2008 | |
Well, Dr. Carley & Other Scoffers?!
Well, well! The US Government has fought tooth and claw against the heroic efforts of thousands of families to obtain compensation for injuries to their young children that they believe were caused by mercury contamination from vaccines. And now, very recently, we learn that the Government has finally (and quietly) conceded a link between vaccines and autism-type disorders in some children, after assiduously and continuously denying precisely this for years. See the following more recent information by Mr. Kirby:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html
Well, Dr. Carley and fellow scoffers among the reviewers of this book?! You told us in your review that "a bigger lie has never been told" than the cold, hard data and analysis presented by Mr. Kirby and these families. (Just the kind of considered, sober analysis, yours, that we want from our "medical professionals"!) Perhaps you will tell us that the same Government that has fought these families so tenaciously now has joined the big grass-roots conspiracy? Does this mean that the "lie" "told" by Mr. Kirby is now only the SECOND biggest lie ever told? Second only to this reversal and acknowledgment by the US Government? In the face of such criticisms, to many outside the controversy Mr. Kirby and these families probably seemed like strange voices in the wilderness when and after this book was published. Perhaps not so much so now!
I have participated in this controversy for some time as an insider. This is a marvelous book. David Kirby is extremely brave to have written it, stuck by it, and stayed with the story, to the present. Even braver are the families of the affected children (many of whom I have had the honor and pleasure to know and to work for) who have persisted in what they have known is the good fight, in the face of the most overwhelming opposition imaginable, from big Government, big science, the big pharmaceutical industry, and last and least, ersatz "experts" and shrill scrawlers like Dr.Carley. In the light of all this, I invite anyone approaching this issue for the first time to consider in which of these competing, very different, voices you find more comfort placing your trust.
I have long been convinced that the families of whose courageous struggles Mr. Kirby writes here would, somehow, some day, finally see the widespread recognition of the truth of what happened to their children, which truth they have long known. The recent admission by the US Government is a very significant first step in that process. When the families' vindication finally comes, it will be in no small measure because of this book.
March 04, 2008 | |
Major disinformation on the cause of autism 
David Kirby is a disinformer who wrote this book to make people believe that autism is caused by mercury...thus, if the mercury is removed, the vaccines will be safe. A bigger lie has never been told; as the corruption of the immune system caused by injecting viruses directly into the blood stream causes all autoimmune diseases (of which autism is one) and cancer, in people and in pets.
My website has an interview of myself and David Kirby which you will find in the "Hall of Shame". Except as a lesson in how disinformers work, this book is worthless.
Rebecca Carley, MD
Court Qualified expert in VIDS (Vaccine induced Diseases)
January 07, 2008 | |
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