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Wired Takes on the Anti-Vaxers

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shutdown10/21/2009 7:41:01 am PDT

re: #127 celticdragon

No studies are being done…deliberately. This according to a former head of the National Institute for Health which I cited above. Even if Thimerosal is not a causal factor, there is no good reason to put an insanely toxic substance (at rates far above government standards for other Mercury compounds!) in your medicine. If you want to play with that shit, be my guest. I’ll pass.

Whatever environmental factor that somehow interacts with genetic causality has not been positively identified…yet.

fda.gov

Even for the one or two vaccines in which Thimerosal is still used, there are alternatives. And the science contradicitng the link between vaccinations and autism is sound. Braying the contrary does not make it so. You also have to bear in mind that all vaccinations and medical procedures have an inherent level of risk. The point is, that the risk of adverse reaction is exponentially smaller than the risk of contracting disease.