I just posted a cliff notes version of this on social media, with a footnote, urging people to not heat food in the tailpipe of their car, lick a volcano or eat a thermometer.
Thanks for "we live in a world where fear matters more than facts". I suspect that that's the most accurate and concise explanation of the current mess we're in that I'm ever going to read.
Dr. Love’s explanation should be required reading for anyone still repeating RFK Jr.’s distortions. Thimerosal is not mercury; its chemistry, metabolism, and toxicology are entirely different. The entire “mercury in vaccines” claim depends on ignoring these distinctions. What RFK Jr. has done for twenty years is exploit chemophobia and scientific illiteracy to build a movement that endangers lives. This is not scientific debate, it is deliberate deception sustained by profit and ego.
Would you please explain why it is that a preservative is necessary in the multidose containers? What is it that causes the multidose containers to be more subject to a problem?
Good question — I answered that in an earlier article but it is worth repeating!
“You might wonder, why do we even need thimerosal as a preservative?
Vaccines are injected intramuscularly. We want to make sure they are sterile, right?
The manufacturing process ensures this is the case, but sources of contamination arise when vials are unsealed.
If a vial contains 4 doses of vaccine, whoever is administering vaccines is going into and out of the vial multiple times: opportunity to inadvertently introduce microbes in the environment (or on their bodies) into the vaccine. If it was then administered to someone, that could be potentially very dangerous.
Thimerosal keeps vaccines safe from being contaminated.”
I just posted a cliff notes version of this on social media, with a footnote, urging people to not heat food in the tailpipe of their car, lick a volcano or eat a thermometer.
Thanks for "we live in a world where fear matters more than facts". I suspect that that's the most accurate and concise explanation of the current mess we're in that I'm ever going to read.
Dr. Love’s explanation should be required reading for anyone still repeating RFK Jr.’s distortions. Thimerosal is not mercury; its chemistry, metabolism, and toxicology are entirely different. The entire “mercury in vaccines” claim depends on ignoring these distinctions. What RFK Jr. has done for twenty years is exploit chemophobia and scientific illiteracy to build a movement that endangers lives. This is not scientific debate, it is deliberate deception sustained by profit and ego.
Would you please explain why it is that a preservative is necessary in the multidose containers? What is it that causes the multidose containers to be more subject to a problem?
Thanks!
Tim Orr
Good question — I answered that in an earlier article but it is worth repeating!
“You might wonder, why do we even need thimerosal as a preservative?
Vaccines are injected intramuscularly. We want to make sure they are sterile, right?
The manufacturing process ensures this is the case, but sources of contamination arise when vials are unsealed.
If a vial contains 4 doses of vaccine, whoever is administering vaccines is going into and out of the vial multiple times: opportunity to inadvertently introduce microbes in the environment (or on their bodies) into the vaccine. If it was then administered to someone, that could be potentially very dangerous.
Thimerosal keeps vaccines safe from being contaminated.”
https://news.immunologic.org/p/thimerosal-isnt-mercury-but-to-rfk
Thanks! That makes good sense.