Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism

jamie found an article over at Washington Monthly discussing the recent finding that there is no link between thimerosal and autism. It seems that after the mercury-based vaccine preservative was withdrawn from use in 1999, no drop in autism rates has been observed in a large California study. Here's the Science Daily writeup on the study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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Any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down

[John Sokol]

Yup, any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down, that has been my experience.
Just as in any beliefs or criticism that go against the large cooperate republican conservative mentality these days, all opposition will be beaten down, disrespected, humiliated, disregarded, labeled as crackpot, conspiracy theory or fringe.

Even this message I am sure will be labeled as flame bate, but I urge you to give this post some consideration that there is something more I am trying to point out, maybe a lesson to be learned.

Every post I have ever made on this subject gets hastily berated.

History has shown that there has been more to some of following then first meets the eye:

Global Warming.
Increasing gas mileage and alternate energy
Voting machine fraud, WMD's, Kennedy, John Lennon, Ghandi, Tim Leary,
GM vs. Organic food. Smoking causing or not causing cancer, Marijuana
Tesla, Laithwaite, Hutchinson, Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Columbus
Perendev, Searl, Cold Fusion, The Earth Being round, String Theory, E8,Quantum Physics , Roswell
Jesus, Moses, Noah, The Ark of the covenant, the chalice, Troy, 12/12/2012, the holocaust, revelations.

Yet all have been flamed, ripped on and disregarded without any logic.

Study the history of these things, and maybe you will start to see a different perspective of the world.

But for most these days, what's the difference, if it doesn't agree with your world view, Kill it rather then take a serious look and logical debate. So much for the hopes and efforts of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, these now seem like dead ideals.

So what ever happened Live and Let live. Or as someone I met in passing put it, What ever floats your boat.

If anything things like Charlie Wilson war and Iran Contra and Air America demonstrate that things can go down on much larger scale then you could ever imagine. Worse you'd never know or never believe it if told and shown absolute proof. You need to keep an open mind, both sides. Or are we just Lemmings doomed to follow our crowd where ever it leads?

Look, something is causing it, either come up with better suggestions, logical debates or back the (insert derogatory of choice) off.

Re:Inaccurate

[thegnu]

Do you have links to your "actual knowledge" for verification? Note that GeoCities pages with animated spinning GIF skulls and flames are not considered reliable sources of information.

Here it is

But all joking aside, not all information can be linked, buddy. Like, experiential stuff. I know this is not good for proving a scientific theory, but scientific theory is not the only thing in the world, and many many things can't be proved, or remain unproved, and we accept them as-is.

So. Modding someone troll because you disagree with them, and they don't provide you with a link makes you an asshole.

Like when Patrick Volkerwhatzit from Slackware was dying, and he asked for help, anybody who told him to do something other than consult with an AMA-approved medical practitioner got modded down. And that's what he was already trying. Thanks a lot guys. Really watching out for people, there.

Re:I don't mean to be the guy everyone hates, but.

[thegnu]

So correlation equals causation? If it causes 12 cases of autism per year, then that would not register in their statistics. What was their statistical tolerance? Was it zero?

References? How about it? Let us know, please.
Holding my breath,
Nathan