Vaccine makers used to pump their product full of thimerosal to keep them fresh, but the mercury in the compound alarmed some people and the Center for Disease Control took the precautionary measure of lowering the allowable levels of thimerosal in most vaccines. However, the tiny amount that's left still has some seeing a huge problem.

Dr. Boyd Haley is the former chairman of the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky. Most of his work pertains to the toxicity of mercury.

"You can dilute it a lot and still have enough to suppress the immune system, especially if you got two to three vax at one time. So it is an immune system suppressor, which makes it stupid to put in vaccines," he said.

Haley added, "The Einsteins at the CDC vaccine unit decided it was a good idea to inject that on the day of birth without doing any safety testing. Without looking at the amount mean, it is a comedy of errors, and I don't think the American people appreciate it. "

He believes autistics have mercury poisoning.

"We wrote a paper suggesting that autistics represent children. That in their infancy could not excrete mercury as well as controlled children, and since then, MIT and the people at Arizona State University have reproduced that. So it's not a joke. And with the biochemistry that has been done, the cell biology, we have done about everything we can do to show these kids are mercury toxic," Haley said.

The study goes on to say autistics have 54 percent lower glutathion levels, which lowers their ability to get rid of mercury that gets into their bodies. The CDC said no harm has been reported from using thimerosal in vaccines, but Dr. Haley said that's not true.

"To be very blunt, they are lying to you. In my opinion, they have never looked. If you don't look, you won't find it, and if you look and find it, you bury it. What do you call that Verstraeten study that found a 7.62 percent relative risk? That is a huge overwhelming proof that thimerosal is toxic. And you don't call that a proof just because you didn't put it in a newspaper? Because you didn't want it to be that way. I mean there is no other explanation I have than the people at the CDC in charge of vaccines are just flagrant liars," he said.

No CDC and other major government-supported study about autism has yet to show a link between autism and mercury in vaccines.

"Our government agencies just only believe science if it fits into their agenda. At the IOM meeting we talked about them being unable to methilate DNA and RNA, and how that enzymes is really sensitive and inhibited mercury. And they just totally swept that under the table. And what did they believe? They believe five epidemiological studies, which the CDC funded, which has all kinds of indications there were a lot of shenanigans going on. You don't like accusing people of doing things that are wrong, but sometimes they just stink so bad, that you cannot turn your head away from it," Haley said.

"When people are there arguing about this -- and I know the CDC knew about this thimerosal issue -- in 1999, they had it in their fat little hands their own study showing it was a tremendous risk for autism. They should have done something immediately and instead of doing that, they covered it up."

You might not see or hear much about Dr. Haley's studies because they are overshadowed by the CDC and FDA. Haley said he is confident the truth will prevail.

"You would have to be a total idiot at the CDC not to be nervous about that. Pediatricians are not scientists. They are not taught to think about toxicology and toxic effects, and they don't think about them. And if you say, 'Who is telling you the truth?'  I don't make any money off of it. All these moms out there fighting this don't make any money off of it," Haley said. 

"There are tons of scientists on my side. When they say science is on their side they are taking about physicians administrators at the CDC. They definitely aren't scientists," he added.

Dr. Haley will appear in the next segment of Combating Autism From Within next week.