Thimerosal Investigation

Our firm, Bendall & Mednick, was involved in some of the Thimerosal litigation, and I recently performed at a benefit for SafeMinds which is an advocacy group involved in the fight over mercury.

This article written by Robert Kennedy is pretty damning in my view of some of the backstory on this issue. It is a Salon article, so click through the ads to get a free pass to read the piece.

The article reads in part:

"In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session -- only private invitations to fifty-two attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly "embargoed." There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left."