With the publication of The Da Vinci Code and the release of the Matrix films, Gnosticism has experienced a cultural revival in the West. Is the rise of Gnostic thinking simply a fleeting trend, like the outrageous clothing that Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera wear one day and never don again? Perhaps. Yet, it is interesting to note that the popularization of Darwinian evolution preceded Gnosticism’s ascendancy in the West. The significance of this fact becomes evident when one reads the words of Dr. Wolfgang Smith:
“As a scientific theory, Darwinism would have been jettisoned long ago. The point, however, is that the doctrine of evolution has swept the world, not on the strength of its scientific merits, but precisely in its capacity as a Gnostic myth. It affirms, in effect, that living beings created themselves, which is in essence a metaphysical claim… Thus, in the final analysis, evolutionism is in truth a metaphysical doctrine decked out in scientific garb. In other words, it is a scientistic myth. And the myth is Gnostic, because it implicitly denies the transcendent origin of being; for indeed, only after the living creature has been speculatively reduced to an aggregate of particles does Darwinist transformism become conceivable. Darwinism, therefore, continues the ancient Gnostic practice of depreciating ‘God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth.’ It perpetuates, if you will, the venerable Gnostic tradition of ‘Jehovah bashing.’ And while this in itself may gladden Gnostic hearts, one should not fail to observe that the doctrine plays a vital role in the economy of Neo-Gnostic thought, for only under the auspices of Darwinist ‘self-creation’ does the Good News of ‘self-salvation’ acquire a semblance of sense.” (242-43)
In light of this intriguing observation, one could view the current rise of Gnosticism as the natural corollary of Darwinism’s unquestionable epistemological primacy in the West. The current Gnostic revival could represent the next stage of Darwinism’s metastasis.
It is interesting to note that the British Royal Society, the Masonic institution responsible for the promulgation of Darwinism, rigorously imposed a division between science and theology upon the halls of scientific inquiry. Webster Tarpley characterizes this division as “literally Gnostic.” Indeed, the restriction of scientific research to the corporeal machinations of nature is redolent of Gnostic thinking. It is a distortion of Platonic metaphysics, the conceptual framework of which emphasizes a separation of the corporeal (the Becoming) and the incorporeal (the Being). This framework bears close resemblance to the traditional Christian Weltanschauung, which divides existence into the spiritual and the physical. However, Gnosticism rejected the Christian Eschaton of heaven and hell. This is where the distortion begins.
According to Gnosticism, the physical universe is hell. Corporeal existence is a prison that fetters man through the demonic agents of space and time. However, through revelatory experience (gnosis), the sensate being of man could be transformed and this hell could become heaven. Guided by this Gnostic axiom, the Freemasonic Royal Society redirected scientific attention exclusively towards the material world. By focusing scientific efforts upon the temporal spatial realm, the members of the Royal Society probably hoped to see the eventual transformation of the irredeemable physical realm into the “immanentized Eschaton” of an earthly heaven.
This was also the ultimate objective of Marxism, which was disseminated on the popular level as both fascism and communism. It is no coincidence that, historically, both the Nazis and the communists exhibited a religious adherence to the Gnostic myth of Darwinism. Smith writes: “In place of an Eschaton which ontologically transcends the confines of this world, the modern Gnostic envisions an End within history, an Eschaton, therefore, which is to be realized within the ontological plane of this visible universe” (238; emphasis added). According to Vatican insider Malachi Martin, the Italian humanists who eventually created speculative Masonry “reconstructed the concept of gnosis, and transferred it to a thoroughly this-worldly plane” (519). Both Nazism and communism were birthed by organizational derivations of Masonry.
The Only Vaccine Guide a New Parent Will Ever Need
BY J.B. HANDLEY
First, a disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, and the final decision about vaccinating your child should take place between you and your healthcare provider. I’m not giving you medical advice; I’m stating my opinion.
I am a dad. And, I write this without benefitting in anyway from what is said here. I have no book to peddle, no profits to protect, and there’s no doubt that writing this will result in some amount of hate directed in my general direction for challenging a popular narrative that vaccines are only safe and effective and should be administered the same way to all children without consideration for the unique biology of each and every child. So be it.
Do your own research. Understand the risks and benefits of everything you are putting into your child.
Find a healthcare provider who doesn’t believe “one size fits all” when it comes to vaccines
The Vaccine Studies That Have Never Been Done. 1. Study Proving the Existing Vaccine Schedule Is Safe – NEVER DONE 2. Study Proving Safety of Childhood Vaccines For Children – NEVER DONE 3. Study Proving Safety of Infant Vaccines For Infants – NEVER DONE 4. Study Proving Vaccines Safe for Pregnant Women – NEVER DONE 5. Study Proving Vaccines Safe For Unborn Fetus – NEVER DONE 6. Study Comparing the Health of Vaccinated vs Un-Vaccinated – NEVER DONE 7. Study to Prove Combining Several Vaccines at One Doctor’s Visit Is Safe – NEVER DONE 8. Study That Exposes Vaccinated People to Targeted Virus (to see if they get sick or not) – NEVER DONE 9. Study That Proves Vaccinated People Don’t Acquire the Targeted Disease – NEVER DONE 10. Study Proving Thimerosal (mercury) or Aluminum Are Safe to Inject Into Children – NEVER DONE Read # 8 again and then read it again…….and then think about that. These are the studies the average person assumes were already done decades ago and they have NEVER been done. If you’re not concerned, you’re not paying attention. ~ Chris Kirckof
Disturbing tape-recording of an immunologist having a laugh over the numerous and useless vaccines they inject for a child’s first year of life, in order to keep parents compliant and unquestioning of what is being done to their baby. Research is KEY and education is empowerment
Pro-Vaccine Immunologist Admits a Shocking Truth About Vaccines
For several years, until April of this year, I had been lecturing nationally to health professionals about the great vaccine hoax. Attending one such seminar was a board member of an association of health professionals, who invited me to speak on this subject at their national conference. I did, and had 90 minutes to present the most salient points from my 7-hour seminar. It caused quite a stir, and several clinicians thanked me for having the courage to speak the truth about this controversial subject.
Later that day, I sat on a panel of four experts to answer questions from conference attendees. Many of the questions were directed at the PhD immunologist on the panel, asking if the statements I had made in the morning presentation were true. To my surprise, the immunologist confirmed every assertion I had made.
The first was that it is pointless to administer drugs intended to stimulate antibody production to babies who are too young to produce antibodies. Infants in their first year mostly depend on generalized, non-specific immunity, including (hopefully) immunoglobulins from breast milk, to protect their young bodies from infection. They do not produce antibodies of their own until about age one. Despite this basic fact, the medical establishment insists administering a total of 19 shots, containing 24 vaccines, to infants on the 2, 4 and 6 month pediatric visits (Source: cdc.gov). Somehow, the basic facts of human physiology and development do not apply to vaccines.
You can listen to an audio file of an exchange between an attendee and the immunologist about this question. She declined to be identified in my presentations, including this post, perhaps because she knows that anyone who speaks the truth about vaccines is savaged by the medical establishment and their compliant lapdogs in the mainstream media. It is professional suicide for anyone in conventional medicine to question the unquestionable (yet unproven) assumptions about vaccines: that they are effective, safe and necessary. I have stopped lecturing publicly on this subject for the same reason, because the attacks in recent years have become particularly vicious; and because my main message in my teachings is about personal responsibility, innate wholeness and opening to the largeness of who we are, not just vaccines.
Study – A modified self-controlled case series method to examine association between multidose vaccinations and death
Abstract
The self-controlled case series method (SCCS) was developed to analyze the association between a time-varying exposure and an outcome event. We consider penta- or hexavalent vaccination as the exposure and unexplained sudden unexpected death (uSUD) as the event. The special situation of multiple exposures and a terminal event requires adaptation of the standard SCCS method. This paper proposes a new adaptation, in which observation periods are truncated according to the vaccination schedule. The new method exploits known minimum spacings between successive vaccine doses. Its advantage is that it is very much simpler to apply than the method for censored, perturbed or curtailed post-event exposures recently introduced. This paper presents a comparison of these two SCCS methods by simulation studies and an application to a real data set. In the simulation studies, the age distribution and the assumed vaccination schedule were based on real data. Only small differences between the two SCCS methods were observed, although 50 per cent of cases could not be included in the analysis with the SCCS method with truncated observation periods. By means of a study including 300 uSUD, a 16-fold risk increase after the 4th dose could be detected with a power of at least 90 per cent. A general 2-fold risk increase after vaccination could be detected with a power of 80 per cent. Reanalysis of data from cases of the German case-control study on sudden infant death (GeSID) resulted in slightly higher point estimates using the SCCS methods than the odds ratio obtained by the case-control analysis.
The Top 10 Reasons To Never Take A Vaccine
There are many, many good reasons to never take a vaccine. Whether you want to protect yourself against carcinogenic hidden ingredients, disallow toxic adjuvants into your body, defend your immune system against a chemical onslaught or refuse to be part of any sinister schemes of sterilization-depopulation agenda, this information is vitally important.
More and more, we are learning the truth about vaccines, what they are really composed of and what they really do to the human body – and the more we learn about them, the more we see just how dangerous and harmful they are. Whatever they may have been or could be, as it stands, they are a weapon of medical destruction that makes billions of dollars for the Rockefeller Medicine Big Pharma cartel. Here is my list of the top 10 reasons for an ordinary person to never take a vaccine, unless they were in a life-threatening situation where somehow the benefit outweighed the risk.
Reason #1 to Never Take a Vaccine: Toxic Ingredients – Formaldehyde, MSG, Antibiotics, GMOs, Polysorbate, Mercury, Squalene and More Reason #2 to Never Take a Vaccine: Toxic Adjuvants – Aluminum Reason #3 to Never Take a Vaccine: Hidden Ingredients – Immunity-Destroying Nagalese Reason #4 to Never Take a Vaccine: Injection of Human and Animal Cells Reason #5 to Never Take a Vaccine: Blood Sludge, Hypoxia, Ischemia and Localized “Strokes” in Your Body Reason #6 to Never Take a Vaccine: The Herd Immunity Myth Busted Reason #7 to Never Take a Vaccine: Viral Shedding Reason #8 to Never Take a Vaccine: Possible Side Effects of Paralysis and Death Reason #9 to Never Take a Vaccine: Insufficient Legal Recourse Reason #10 to Never Take a Vaccine: The Vaccine-Sterilization-Depopulation Connection
Remember that Bill Gates himself, point man for the NWO agenda, has slipped up and admitted there is a vaccine-depopulation link on at least 2 occasions:
“… if we do a really great job on new vaccines … we could lower that (i.e. population growth) perhaps by 10-15% …” “… the benefits (of vaccines) are there in terms of reducing sickness, reducing population growth …”
WEM NÜTZT DAS IMPFEN?
Zeit für einen Shitstorm gegen die Impfstoffhersteller! In deren Prospekten stimmt kein einziger Satz, schwere Nebenwirkungen werden mit Hilfe einer Armada von Lobbyisten verschwiegen, damit der Rubel rollt. Es ist Zeit, den Verletzungen an Körper, Geist und Seele, die von Impfungen verursacht werden, ein Ende zu bereiten!
Impfungen haben keine einzige Seuche ausgerottet – das zeigen Statistiken des Bundes. Jede Seuche war aufgrund des wachsenden Wohlstands nach dem 2. WK schon so gut wie verschwunden, BEVOR die entsprechende Impfung auf den Markt kam!
Schluss mit den Lügen der Pharma-Industrie und staatlich organisierten Subventionen wie bei den “Schweinegrippe-Impfstoffen”!
Konkret sind im ersten Lebensjahr von der Lobbygruppe “StIKo” empfohlen:4 x 6-fach-Impfung, 4 x Pneumokokken, 1 x MMRV (4-fach), dazu kommen optionale Impfungen wie gegen “Rotaviren” oder Influenza, die viele Ärzte zusätzlich verimpfen. Macht maximal 34 Impfungen im ersten Lebensjahr. Und im 2. Lebensjahr wird dann munter weitergeimpft…
FÜR EINE FREIE ZUKUNFT GESUNDER MENSCHEN! IMPFEN MUSS FREIWILLIG BLEIBEN! http://www.facebook.com/FIEGZ http://www.freie-impfentscheidung.blogspot.com
Study – What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature?
Abstract
There is a compelling argument that the occurrence of regressive autism is attributable to genetic and chromosomal abnormalities, arising from the overuse of vaccines, which subsequently affects the stability and function of the autonomic nervous system and physiological systems. That sense perception is linked to the autonomic nervous system and the function of the physiological systems enables us to examine the significance of autistic symptoms from a systemic perspective. Failure of the excretory system influences elimination of heavy metals and facilitates their accumulation and subsequent manifestation as neurotoxins: the long-term consequences of which would lead to neurodegeneration, cognitive and developmental problems. It may also influence regulation of neural hyperthermia. This article explores the issues and concludes that sensory dysfunction and systemic failure, manifested as autism, is the inevitable consequence arising from subtle DNA alteration and consequently from the overuse of vaccines.
Study – A two-phase study evaluating the relationship between Thimerosal-containing vaccine administration and the risk for an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in the United States
Abstract
Background
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is defined by standardized criteria of qualitative impairments in social interaction, qualitative impairments in communication, and restricted and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities. A significant number of children diagnosed with ASD suffer a loss of previously-acquired skills, which is suggestive of neurodegeneration or a type of progressive encephalopathy with an etiological pathogenic basis occurring after birth. To date, the etiology of ASD remains under debate, however, many studies suggest toxicity, especially from mercury (Hg), in individuals diagnosed with an ASD. The present study evaluated concerns about the toxic effects of organic-Hg exposure from Thimerosal (49.55% Hg by weight) in childhood vaccines by conducting a two-phased (hypothesis generating/hypothesis testing) study with documented exposure to varying levels of Thimerosal from vaccinations.
Methods
A hypothesis generating cohort study was undertaken to evaluate the relationship between exposure to organic-Hg from a Thimerosal-containing Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular-Pertussis (DTaP) vaccine in comparison to a Thimerosal-free DTaP vaccine administered, from 1998 through 2000, for the risk of ASD as reported in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database (phase I). A hypothesis testing case–control study was undertaken to evaluate the relationship between organic-Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccines administered at specific intervals in the first six months of life among cases diagnosed with an ASD and controls born between 1991 through 1999 in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database (phase II).
Results
In phase I, it was observed that there was a significantly increased risk ratio for the incidence of ASD reported following the Thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccine in comparison to the Thimerosal-free DTaP vaccine. In phase II, it was observed that cases diagnosed with an ASD were significantly more likely than controls to receive increased organic-Hg from Thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccine administered within the first, second, and sixth month of life.
Conclusions
Routine childhood vaccination is an important public health tool to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases, but the present study provides new epidemiological evidence supporting an association between increasing organic-Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and the subsequent risk of an ASD diagnosis.
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Dr Paul Thomas interview with Polly Tommey
June 17, 2017
The Shift Episode 8: Del Bigtree
Join host Doug McKenty as he discusses the controversial movie Vaxxed with producer Del Bigtree. Listen in as the conversation includes the real story behind Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s study of the MMR vaccine that started it all, the realization that regulatory agencies have been corrupted at the highest levels, as well as the real reasons behind the mainstream media’s complicity in covering up the actual science behind vaccine safety. Find out more about it at http://www.vaxxedthemovie.com, and as always help out at http://www.patreon.com/theshift or visit http://www.theshiftnow.com for more information about making The Shift.
Billy D Live with Del Bigtree
Watch Billy D and Del Bigtree talk about vaccines
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Vaccine’s Safety: A Crime Against Humanity
Dr. Sherri J Tenpenny warns about the perils of vaccination
This is the Best Explanation of the Vaccine/Autism Connection I’ve Ever Heard! Dr. Stephanie Seneff discusses the potential connection between vaccines and autism. It’s a hotly-debated topic. Here she gets specific into what ingredient in the vaccine may be linked to autism and other conditions. Find out what her research has found. You may think differently after watching this!
Trace Amounts: Ethyl Mercury | Educational Documentary
Has Ethyl Mercury Caused One of the Worst Health Crises in American History? During the past 20 years, the frequency of autism occurring in children has .
This video shares facts about the devastating mercury based preservative, thimerosal, used in vaccines. .
For this EP of Zero Doubt Zone, host Dane Sorenson, circles back to the subject of vaccines. On the heels of viewing the documentary, ‘Trace Amounts’, .
Courtesy of AAE tv Documentary filmmaker and researcher, Eric Gladen. Ethann and Eric discuss his new film “Trace Amounts”. They talk about the scientific .
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Se cere demisia ministrului Sănătăţii. Motivul – legea care prevede vaccinarea obligatorie
In nicio țară din Uniunea Europeană nu sunt obligatorii 8 vaccinuri!
In Germania, Austria, Olanda, Spania, Portugalia, Marea Britanie, Luxemburg, Suedia, Danemarca, Italia, Irlanda, Finlanda, Suedia, Croația, Cipru, Estonia și Lituania, părinții decid dacă își vaccinează copiii!
Vaccinul este un medicament, dar poate fi și o armă biologică!
Peste 180.000 de copii vor fi obligați, in primul an de viață, să primească 26 de vaccinuri!
in cazul unui copil contraindicația definitivă la un vaccin sau mai multe se acordă numai la București de către GTCAV!
Pana la varsta de 6 ani un copil trebuie să primească 33 de vaccinuri!
Vaccinurile provoacă boli autoimune: un copil din patru suferă de o boală alergică, iar un copil din zece suferă de astm bronșic!
Asociația Pro Consumatori are o activitate de peste 27 de ani in domeniul apărării drepturilor și intereselor economice ale consumatorilor.
Vitamin D supplementation improves autism in children, according to new study
Furthermore, children who received vitamin D supplementation experienced increased cognitive awareness, social awareness and social cognition compared to those who only received the placebo. Vitamin D supplementation significantly decreased repetitive hand movements, random noises, jumping and restricted interests.
The researchers concluded,
“This study is the first double-blinded RCT proving the efficacy of vitamin D3 in ASD patients…Oral vitamin D supplementation may safely improve signs and symptoms of ASD and could be recommended for children with ASD.”
The study also mentioned that the supplementation regimen was well tolerated among the children. Only five children experienced minor side effects during the four-month study period, such as skin rashes, itching and diarrhea.
Study – Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder.
RESULTS:
Supplementation of vitamin D was well tolerated by the ASD children. The daily doses used in the therapy group was 300 IU vitamin D3/kg/day, not to exceed 5,000 IU/day. The autism symptoms of the children improved significantly, following 4-month vitamin D3 supplementation, but not in the placebo group. This study demonstrates the efficacy and tolerability of high doses of vitamin D3 in children with ASD.
CONCLUSIONS:
This study is the first double-blinded RCT proving the efficacy of vitamin D3 in ASD patients. Depending on the parameters measured in the study, oral vitamin D supplementation may safely improve signs and symptoms of ASD and could be recommended for children with ASD. At this stage, this study is a single RCT with a small number of patients, and a great deal of additional wide-scale studies are needed to critically validate the efficacy of vitamin D in ASD.
Study – Vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid supplements in children with autism spectrum disorder: a study protocol for a factorial randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
METHODS/DESIGN:
Children with ASD living in New Zealand (n = 168 children) will be randomised to one of four treatments daily: vitamin D (2000 IU), n-3 LCPUFAs (722 mg DHA), vitamin D (2000 IU) + n-3 LCPUFAs (722 mg DHA) or placebo for 12 months. All researchers, participants and their caregivers will be blinded until the data analysis is completed, and randomisation of the active/placebo capsules and allocation will be fully concealed from all mentioned parties. The primary outcome measures are the change in social-communicative functioning, sensory processing issues and problem behaviours between baseline and 12 months. A secondary outcome measure is the effect on gastrointestinal symptoms. Baseline data will be used to assess and correct basic nutritional deficiencies prior to treatment allocation. For safety measures, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D 25(OH)D and calcium will be monitored at baseline, 6 and 12 months, and weekly compliance and gastrointestinal symptom diaries will be completed by caregivers throughout the study period.
DISCUSSION:
To our knowledge there are no randomised controlled trials assessing the effects of both vitamin D and DHA supplementation on core symptoms of ASD. If it is shown that either vitamin D, DHA or both are effective, the trial would reveal a non-invasive approach to managing ASD symptoms.
Study – Vitamin D status in autism spectrum disorders and the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in autistic children
RESULTS:
Fifty-seven percent of the patients in the present study had vitamin D deficiency, and 30% had vitamin D insufficiency. The mean 25-OHD levels in patients with severe autism were significantly lower than those in patients with mild/moderate autism. Serum 25-OHD levels had significant negative correlations with Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) scores. Of the ASD group, 106 patients with low-serum 25-OHD levels (<30 ng/ml) participated in the open label trial. They received vitamin D3 (300 IU/kg/day not to exceed 5000 IU/day) for 3 months. Eighty-three subjects completed 3 months of daily vitamin D treatment. Collectively, 80.72% (67/83) of subjects who received vitamin D3 treatment had significantly improved outcome, which was mainly in the sections of the CARS and aberrant behavior checklist subscales that measure behavior, stereotypy, eye contact, and attention span.
CONCLUSION:
Vitamin D is inexpensive, readily available and safe. It may have beneficial effects in ASD subjects, especially when the final serum level is more than 40 ng/ml.
Study – Clinical improvement following vitamin D3 supplementation in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Abstract
Objective High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was previously reported in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but little is known about the efficacy of vitamin D3 treatment in ASD, although data from pilot studies seem promising. We hypothesized that serum vitamin D levels are reduced in ASD and correlate with the severity of disease. Also, we hypothesized that vitamin D3 treatment may be beneficial for a considerable portion of children with ASD. Methods In total, 215 children with ASD and 285 healthy control children were recruited in our study. Thirty seven of 215 ASD children received vitamin D3 treatment. The Autism Behaviour Checklist (ABC) and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) were used to assess autism symptoms. High-performance liquid chromatography was used to assess the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH) D] level. Evaluations of ABC, CARS, and serum 25(OH) D levels were performed before and after 3 months of treatment. Results Serum levels of 25(OH) D were significantly lower in ASD children than typically developing children. Levels of serum 25(OH) D were negatively correlated with ABC total scores and language subscale scores. After vitamin D3 supplementation, symptom scores were significantly reduced on the CARS and ABC. In addition, the data also suggest that treatment effects were more pronounced in younger children with ASD. Conclusion Vitamin D deficiency might contribute to the aetiology of ASD. Supplementation of vitamin D3, which is a safe and cost-effective form of treatment, may significantly improve the outcome of some children with ASD, especially younger children (identifier ChiCTR-CCC-13004498). Clinical Trial Registration The trial ‘Association of Polymorphisms of Vitamin D Metabolism-Related Genes With Autism and the Treatment of Autism with Vitamin D’ has been registered at www.chictr.org/cn/proj/show.aspx ? proj=6135 (identifier ChiCTR-CCC-13004498).
The F.D.A. team’s conclusions were frightening.
Vaccines added under Halsey’s watch had tripled the dose of mercury that infants got in their first few months of life. As many as 30 million American children may have been exposed to mercury in excess of Environmental Protection Agency guidelines — levels of mercury that, in theory, could have killed enough brain cells to scramble thinking or hex behavior.
”My first reaction was simply disbelief, which was the reaction of almost everybody involved in vaccines,” Halsey says. ”In most vaccine containers, thimerosal is listed as a mercury derivative, a hundredth of a percent. And what I believed, and what everybody else believed, was that it was truly a trace, a biologically insignificant amount. My honest belief is that if the labels had had the mercury content in micrograms, this would have been uncovered years ago. But the fact is, no one did the calculation.”