'I'm convinced a second gunman was involved in killing my uncle': Robert Kennedy

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117. If you pretend to know anything about this issue

You need to know some extremely basic facts. Such as the fact that it's not been in vaccines given to children in the US since 2000, yet autism diagnoses have not plummeted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal#Autism

Following a review of mercury-containing food and drugs mandated in 1999, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics asked vaccine manufacturers to remove thiomersal from vaccines as a purely precautionary measure, and it was rapidly phased out of most U.S. and European vaccines.[5][19] Many parents saw the action to remove thiomersal–in the setting of a perceived increasing rate of autism as well as increasing number of vaccines in the childhood vaccination schedule–as indicating that the preservative was the cause of autism.[5] The scientific consensus is that there is no scientific evidence supporting these claims, including the observation that the rate of autism continues to climb despite elimination of thiomersal from routine childhood vaccines.[20][21][22] Major scientific and medical bodies such as the Institute of Medicine[22] and World Health Organization[23] as well as governmental agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration[4] and the CDC[24] reject any role for thiomersal in autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.[25] This controversy has caused harm due to parents attempting to treat their autistic children with unproven and possibly dangerous treatments, discouraging parents from vaccinating their children due to fears about thiomersal toxicity[26] and diverting resources away from research into more promising areas for the cause of autism.[27] Thousands of lawsuits have been filed in a U.S. federal court to seek damages from alleged toxicity from vaccines, including those purportedly caused by thiomersal.[28]