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Thanks. Haven't even thought about Microglia since college. Fascinating material you provide and much food for thought. Yes, we must stop these people and now.

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I thought Aluminum was to be removed from vaccines.

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Thanks for another link to a great study, James. I have a question: from the abstract, the paper seems to point to a reduction in microglia being the problem associated with maternal immune activation. If microglia are activated by interleukin 6, and aluminum increases IL-6, wouldn't that lead to an increase, not decrease, in microglia? But maybe the paper answers this question. I will download and read it. My father died of Lewy-Body Dementia, after taking antacids that were primarily aluminum for more than 20 years. So I completely agree, ALL toxic adjuvants should be removed from vaccines (and other exposure.) Thimerosal is apparently still in about 60% of flu vaccines, which is one reason (of many) I never take them.

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And now a Concluding word from our friendly public servants:

"CDC and a panel of experts who make vaccine recommendations have Concluded that flu, Tdap, and COVID-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women and their babies. These experts carefully reviewed the available safety data."

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Earth to Lyons-Weiler:

This study says nothing about vaccination. Furthermore, it's a study in mice that looked at a particular cell type _in vitro_, not even in the living mouse.

If you were to draw any logical conclusions about it, there's a suggestion that (in rodents, anyway), maternal immune activation through _infection_ might have a significant suppressive effect on a particular type of immune cell. Which would be a justification for further studies, which might further support vaccination in pregnancy to prevent infectious disease de-activation, which logic tells us would be far greater than anything produced by vaccination (full-blown infection is bound to create a much more striking effect than vaccination, through systemic release of a massive amount of toxins from replicating pathogens).

But since this is one study in mice, it's hard to draw any conclusions at all. Unless you're a committed antivaxer, which means frantically scouring the scientific literature for anything that seems like it might support your biases, whether relevant or not.

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