Stop The Study…Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism Anyway

In a rebuke to parents across the country who have expressed concern that the mercury used as a preservative in vaccines is connected to autism, the National Institute of Mental Health has called off a study aimed at evaluating an alternative medicine treatment .

The National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, said in a statement on Wednesday that it has canceled a study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a treatment called chelation.

Chelation is a type of therapy in which an …amino acid, called EDTA, is added to the blood. It was developed during World War I and has been used to treat poisoning by various heavy metals including, lead, mercury and arsenic.

The controversy surrounding the mercury-autism connection has been raging for over a decade which caused removal of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal from vaccines in 2001. Many across the country though, believe that this connection has not been thoroughly refuted