Sometimes...Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, Caspase-3 Activation, Membrane Damage, and Cell Death in Cultured Human Neurons and Fibroblasts.

I know many will look at this title and say, "Huh?" I wish I could say the same. This title does not evoke excitement for me; it evokes a memory. Walk through that memory with me. I could use the company.

Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, Caspase-3 Activation, Membrane Damage, and Cell Death in Cultured Human Neurons and Fibroblasts.

I was 21 and my first child, a beautiful baby boy, had been born hours earlier. I was about to hold him for the first time. I knew he was little: 5 pounds 6 ounces--a tiny thing. The nurse brought him to me and I was instantly in love.
I had never seen such a muscular little baby. I swore he had been lifting weights inutero. He was amazingly muscular this newborn babe.

[I would find out later that the combination of these chemicals combined with high testosterone was not a good thing.]

But in looking at this paper, the title especially stands out:

Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, Caspase-3 Activation, Membrane Damage, and Cell Death in Cultured Human Neurons and Fibroblasts.

It grabs me the throat and strangles me to know I said yes to my beautiful baby boy's brain damage.

"...Cell Death in Cultured Human Neurons and Fibroblasts" tells me my child suffered a terrible thing and all by the age of 4 months and 2 days. And he would never recover because they would deny it even existed. They would persecute the parents of the babies they hurt and tell us it was our fault.    

                   Sometimes...   Being smart sucks.

Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, Caspase-3 Activation, Membrane Damage, and Cell Death in Cultured Human Neurons and Fibroblasts.