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 It seems that after the mercury-based vaccine preservative was withdrawn from use in 1999, no drop in autism rates has been observed in a large California study.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

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Parents of autistic kids look for someone else with a lot of money who they can blame ...

  2. But, but, but, by w.p.richardson · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wasn't this a scientific consensus? I thought scientific consensus was infallible, right?

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  3. Re:Mod Parent Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This kind of "if you were as smart and well-informed as I am, you'd reach my conclusion" sort of crap is now considered a brilliant debate style?

    Welcome to modern leftism...