The transsubstantiation of thimerosal: the threat of Echinacea and Elderberry

Teresa Binstock
Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
November 17, 2009

Prelude: Nothing in this essay is intended to provide medical advice. Indeed, the purpose here is to report two findings that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and to place those findings in their societal context. One article is free online; the other isn't.

Thimerosal is present in many influenza vaccines and in many H1N1 vaccines. Although the ethylmercury in vaccinal thimerosal enters the brain of primates (1) and is associated with autism and with the need for special education services (2-3), many spokespersons for vaccine orthodoxy proclaim thimerosal injections to be harmless (eg, 4).

As a result of findings linking thimerosal with autism (eg, 2), some parents turn away from vaccines that may contain thimerosal. Such individuals may not appreciate the role of transsubstantiation (5), whereby (regarding thimerosal) injected ethylmercury is converted into a harmless substance via a physician's or nurse's handling of the fully loaded vaccine-injection device.

Be that as it may, two findings regarding H1N1 merit attention amid encouragement to be injected with thimerosal. First, Roschek and colleagues reported that " Elderberry flavonoids bind to and prevent H1N1 infection in vitro" (6). Second and more recently, Pleschka et al offered: "Human H1N1-type IV..., as well as swine origin IV (S-OIV, H1N1), were all inactivated in cell culture assays by the EF preparation at concentrations ranging from the recommended dose for oral consumption to several orders of magnitude lower." (7)

Ponderable points:
a) Far be it from me to suggest that the physician- and nurse-induced transsubstantiation of mercury into something harmless does not occur (despite ethylmercury's entry into the brain, persistence therein, and association with autism).
b) Despite increasing evidence of thimerosal's adverse effects, the CDC and FDA want Americans to accept influenza- and H1N1-vaccinations and, while so doing, to accept the injecting of mythically transsubstantiated ethylmercury.
c) The CDC and FDA would prefer that we ignore findings regarding Elderberry and Echinacea.
d) The lucrativity of media-hyped pandemics helps us place into perspective lamentations rooted in hope that science someday will trump the orthodoxy of vaccinationism (eg, 8-10, see also 11-13).

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