Thanks for the welcome Russ. This really is a wonderful forum. I've enjoyed reading the posts and replying to some, but it is also distressing to see how much serious illness has been caused by putting poison in people's mouths.

I've been asking myself, why wasn't it obvious? Even after I started finding the truth out about the drug industry and pharmaceuticals, I still put the issue of amalgams on the back burner as one of those "iffy" things. Only now, after a year of trying to educate myself pretty intensively about health, do I seem to be in a position where I am able to say, mercury in the mouth = poison. The beliefs we grow up with can be so strong and pervasive, and one of the things we are told is that amalgams are safe. "They" tell us and "they" are the experts.

I'm also involved in a dispute with my husband right now because I don't want my daughter to have any more vaccinations and it's hard to try to get him to understand from my point of view. I've been looking into thimerosal, and found an article on the Mercola site about a high-level meeting that was convened for the sole purpose of reassuring the public that vaccines are safe, regardless of the actual facts. And the facts were, that the discussion that went on behind closed doors brought out evidence that disturbed one panel member so much that he said he would not give a thimerosal-containing vaccine to his granddaughter. Yet, he quite happily went off and told the public that it was safe.

So yes, this is the sort of lying that is going on, and I'm not surprised by it because I already knew that the FDA does the same with drugs. My hope is that within my lifetime, the truth will come out in a major way, and medicine and dentistry will change their ways. Future generations will be horrified at what has been done to many of us.

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