The Coalition for Safe Minds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological Disorders) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to investigating the risks of exposure to mercury from medical products. Safe Minds supports research on the harmful effects of vaccines containing mercury. General Name, Symbol, Number Mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12 (IIB), 6 , d Density, Hardness liquid 13. ... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ... A bottle and a syringe containing the influenza vaccine. ...

Safe Minds has explored the similarity between symptoms of autism and symptoms of mercury poisoning, noting these are virtually identical in young children. In both, brain cells, eyes, the immune system, the gastrointestinal system, muscular control, and speech are affected. In the late 1930s, Leo Kanner first identified autism as a type of mental disorder, a date coincidental with the introduction of thimerosal containing vaccines (TCVs), which use ethylmercury as a preservative. In psychiatry, autism (called autistic disorder in the DSM) is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder that causes marked problems with social relatedness, communication, interest, and behavior. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12 (IIB), 6 , d Density, Hardness liquid 13. ... Brain Cell is a mail art project begun by Ryosuke Cohen in June 1985. ... Diagram of a human eye. ... The immune system is the collection of organs and tissues involved in the adaptive defense of a body against foreign biological material. ... For the Physics term GUT, please refer to Grand unification theory The gastrointestinal or digestive tract, also referred to as the GI tract or the alimentary canal or the gut, is the system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and... Structure of a skeletal muscle Muscle is one of the four tissue types. ... Dr Leo Kanner MD Leo Kanner (June 13, 1894 - April 4, 1981) was an Austrian-American physician known for his work related to autism. ... The structure of Thimerosal Thimerosal (sometimes spelled as thimerosol and thiomersal[1]) (trade name: Merthiolate) is an organometallic compound used commonly since the 1930s as a preservative in some vaccines. ... Ethylmercury (sometimes ethyl mercury) is a cation that forms organomercury compounds such as ethylmercury chloride and ethylmercury urea. ...

Lyn Redwood, R.N., M.S.N., C.R.N.P, the president and co-founder of Safe Minds, is a nurse practitioner specializing in pediatrics and women's health care for over 25 years. Her son Will was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), not otherwise specified. Redwood is co-author of Autism: A Novel Form of Mercury Poisoning, and has testified before the United States House of Representatives Government Reform Committee, where she presented 'Mercury in Medicine: Are We Taking Unnecessary Risks?' A nurse practitioner is an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) who manages the care of patients in various settings depending on her/his education. ... Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and children. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ...

Sallie Bernard, based in Summit, New Jersey, is the executive director and co-founder of Safe Minds, and a co-author of research papers on the links between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. Her son Bill was diagnosed with autism in 1993. Summit is a city located in Union County, New Jersey. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ...

Mark Blaxill, a board member of Safe Minds, is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard, and has an MBA and a public policy degree. Mark's daughter, Michaela, has been diagnosed with autism. As a Director of Safe Minds, Blaxill has testified before the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and published articles in a number of peer-reviewed scientific journals. Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, is an American organization whose purpose is to provide national advice on issues relating to biomedical science, medicine, and health (National Academy of Sciences, n. ...

See also

• Andrew Wakefield
• Bernard Rimland
• Controversies in autism
• David Kirby
• Inoculation
• Vaccination
• Vaccine controversy

Dr. Andrew Wakefield (born 1957 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian trained gastroenterologist, best known as the lead author of a controversial 1998 research study, published in the Lancet, which raised what its authors claimed was a possible association between MMR vaccination, bowel disease and autism [1]. Early career... Bernard Rimland, Ph. ... There is considerable disagreement over the exact nature of autism, which is not well understood. ... David Kirby is an investigative journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, a regular contributor to the New York Times since 1998, and author of the 2005 book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy. ... Inoculation was a method of minimising the harm done by infection with smallpox. ... Vaccination is a term coined by Edward Jenner for the process of administering a weakened form of a disease to patients as a means of giving them immunity to a more serious form of the disease. ... Vaccines are widely credited for reducing the prevalence and damage of several diseases. ...

External links

• Cherab.org (http://www.cherab.org/news/JointStatement.html) - 'Joint Statement on use of the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink for Thimerosal Investigations' Autism Research Institute', Autism Society of America, Cherab Foundation, Cure Autism Now, Echo of Canada, Safe Minds, Speechville Express, Unlocking Autism (November 3, 2003)
• Ont-Autism.uoguelph.ca (http://www.ont-autism.uoguelph.ca/MMR-comments-nov02.html) - 'Denmark Study on Autism and MMR Vaccine Shows Need for Biological Research', Sallie Bernard (November 5, 2002)
• ProtectingOurHealth.org (http://www.protectingourhealth.org/newscience/learning/autismpeerreview.htm) - 'Autism: Do environmental factors play a role in causation?' Ted Schettler MD, MPH
• SafeMinds.org (http://www.safeminds.org/) - The Coalition for Safe Minds homepage
• VaccinationNews.com (http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/2003/June/10/ENewsSafeMindsResponds10.htm) - 'Safe Minds Commentary on AAP Critique of Geier & Geier Thimerosal Paper', Sallie Bernard
• Whale.to (pdf) (http://www.whale.to/a/pdf/Bernard%20et%20al%202001.pdf) - 'Autism: A Novel Form of Mercury Poisoning', S. Bernard, A. Enayati, L. Redwood, H. Roger, T. Binstock, Medical Hypotheses, Vol 56, No 4, pp 462-471, 2001
• Whale.to (http://www.whale.to/a/bernard4.html) - 'Link between Mercury-based Vaccines and Autism Generates Concern, Spawns Pediatrics Science Article', Sallie Bernard and Lyn Redwood (March 5, 2003)
• Whale.to (http://www.whale.to/v/bernard.html) - 'Mercury in Medicine: Are We Taking Unnecessary Risks?' Remarks before the US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Sally Bernard (July 18, 2000)
• Whale.to (http://www.whale.to/a/redwood_h.html) - Lyn Redwood