Has autism disappeared yet?

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7. I have total sympathy for sufferers and families

It is about as stressful and disheartening as life gets, and I understand why parents were desperate to find a scapegoat -- not that understanding is justification.

But I have a perverse interest in our consequences-free intellectual marketplace. People who *knew* Iraq had WMD continued to pontificate on foreign and military affairs as if nothing had happened. People who *knew* that interest rates would climb due to our deficit in 2008-2012, rather than being blackballed have just as high a soapbox as ever.

And people who *knew* thimerisol caused autism seem to run their mouths about health issues about as much as ever.

Zero accountability.