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Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism

Posted by kdawson on from the nice-theory-though dept.

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 It seems that after the mercury-based vaccine preservative was withdrawn from use in 1999, no drop in autism rates has been observed in a large California study.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.

8 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But, but, but, by darken9999 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would someone hate vacations?

  2. Re:Conspiracy nutters won't be discouraged by solar_blitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear God, I would like to file a bug report.

  3. Re:Conspiracy nutters won't be discouraged by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Most of them would benefit from a good solid course in basic logic (to overturn the fallacies they base their 'theories' on)"

    I used to be a grader at Lehigh for the Informal Logic course - trust me, there are some folks you CAN'T teach logic to.

    And if there's anyone out there who took the course between about '87 & '90: I'm the one who graded your homework "0 plus" on a scale from 0 to 2 - you may have handed it in, but there was no resemblance in any of your answers to anything remotely resembling logic. And you weren't the only one who got that grade.

    --
    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  4. Re:Inaccurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    I love the way my earlier post is modded as a troll. NOTE TO FUCKWIT MOD: Having a contrary opinion backed up by actual knowledge is NOT a troll.

    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.

  5. Re:Any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down by Dr.Enormous · · Score: 2, Funny

    "One business-class ticket for the Crazy Train, please."
    "Coming right up, sir. Enjoy your trip."

  6. Re:Well damn! by Alzheimers · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, but I know that Wapner's on at 4.

  7. Re:Flouride? by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that the active ingredient in flour?

  8. Re:Any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. Everybody now! We didn't start the fire....