Dan Burton: “This lectern, or this stand, holds the faces of about 55 or 60 children who have been damaged, their parents believe, by…”

“This lectern, or this stand, holds the faces of about 55 or 60 children who have been damaged, their parents believe, by vaccines that contain mercury and they have become autistic. One of those is my grandson. It is very interesting, Madam Speaker, that today we found out that there is a just-published report in the ``Journal of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons'' that involves a research study on autism. The research, conducted by Drs. Mark Geier and David Geier, analyzed mercury doses children received from thimerosal, which contains mercury in childhood vaccines in comparison to Federal safety guidelines. The doctors concluded that mercury from thimerosal did exceed Federal safety guidelines and that the study provides strong epidemiological evidence for a link between increasing mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism which has reached epidemic proportions.”