Study Casts Doubt on Vaccine-Autism Link: Research adds to growingbody of evidence thats finds no connection between the two

Robin Nemeth wrote:
The contention that autism cannot be caused by thimerosal in vaccines,
because it has been removed from them and the rates of autism in
California have not decreased with that removal, would be comforting
except for one very uncomfortable fact. Thimerosal has not, actually,
been removed from the vaccines that children are receiving.

The contention is somewhat more complicated than what you claim. The
anti-vac liars claim that the increasing number of vaccines containing
thimerosal caused the "increase" in Autism.

Thus, if the total amount of Thimerosal is lowered, and you seem to
agree that it was, there should be a parallel drop in Autism.

Since there was no drop, but a continuous increase, the correlation
between autism and Thimerosal is disproven.

I recently
did a bit of research into the question of thimerosal content in flu
vaccines. While the information I was able to obtain was limited, the
convoluted answers that I received were enlightening in and of
themselves.

http://www.wideopenwest.com/~r_nemet...c_timeline.htm

CNN claims to have obtained an answer to this question

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/31...hot/index.html

and they say that only six percent of individual doses of flu shots
for this season are 'mercury free'. If one is to presume that the rest
have levels of thimerosal that could be of concern, then, eight long
years after the Department of Health and Human Services said that
thimerosal should and would be removed from vaccines, the vast
majority of flu vaccines in the US still contain the mercury
preservative.

Most of the articles I read have a great deal to say about the
influence of genes on the development of autism. I am not surprised
that genes would affect the development of this devastating condition--
they have some affect on how each and every one of us reacts to each
and every thing we are exposed to in our environment.

The incidence of autism in all of it's forms has skyrocketed in recent
decades--even the CDC no longer denies this. What most articles fail to
address is that it is impossible to explain such a ballooning in
incidence simply by looking at genetic factors, and not environment as
well. If I remember my high school biology correctly, genes are
combined, male and female, and passed on from one generation to the
next, which means that the process of change in populations is a slow
one that can occur only with the passage of many generations. This
spike in autism that has parents so concerned right now, however, has
occurred in the space of a decade and a half. Such swift change is not
possible only via the natural recombination of genes that occurs when
two parents have sex. It is obvious that some kind of damage is being
done to the genetic makeup, or simply damage to the organism. In this
case, that organism being all too often a human child, such as the one
that Karen McCarron, the former pathologist in Illinois, suffocated
with a plastic bag before attempting suicide because she felt
responsible for having had the child vaccinated.

People like you made her feel that way.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...ce_of_harm.php