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Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Juan Cole 03/30/2013

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Yet again, researchers have found that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It is a myth, a hysteria, and a dangerous one, since large numbers of unvaccinated children are an epidemic waiting to happen.

Why so many Americans go running off on such wild goose chases but can’t see the nose on their own faces is a complete mystery to me.

So here’s a clue. There really is something that is putting nerve toxins and other poisonous heavy metals into our water and food. It is called coal. And polluting our children’s bodies with its industrial run-off and fumes is perfectly legal. The nation’s 600 coal plants should be closed immediately and replaced with wind and solar energy.

Here’s a mini-documentary on the subject: Coal Ash Contaminates Our Lives: New Mexico Interview:

Burning coal puts extra mercury, a very toxic nerve poison, into our environment, and it ultimately accumulates in fish and in our own bodies’ fat cells. That just can’t be good for us or our children, folks. Mercury in surface water has doubled. Contact with mercury over time makes you crazy. 19th century hat makers used mercury to smooth down felt, which over time made many of them bonkers, hence the Lewis Caroll character, the Mad Hatter. But we are are all now going down the same path toward Mad Hatterdom.

And coal is why? Yes, children, coal is why.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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