Boyd E. Haley, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of chemistry and has
published important studies about mercury (eg, 1-3). One of his
team's finding documented that a major phenomenon in
Alzheimer's-like pathologies could be induced by physiologically
occurring levels of mercury (1). A recent essay is titled
"Aluminum in vaccination-associated cognitive decline, motor
neuron disease, autism" (4). That essay prompted an insightful
comment from Dr. Haley, wherein he reports that vaccine-levels
of aluminum exacerbate the pathologic potential of vaccinal
thimerosal: Dr. Haley explained, "Note that aluminum alone does
not cause the abnormal biochemistry and production of
neurofibillary tangles as does mercury (and only mercury) due to
the specific interaction of mercury at specific sulfhydryl sites
in specific enzymes/proteins known to be affected dramatically
in Alzheimer’s disease. However, in our studies on neurons in
culture we found that aluminum at levels found in vaccines
dramatically enhanced the toxicity of th