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In reply to the discussion: Jenny McCarthy does a major CYA... [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)First, there is no connection between thimerosal and any cognitive disorders. None!
Second, thimerosal was removed from most childhood vaccines in 2002! Virtually all of the anti-vaxxers and the mercury militia were predicting a decrease in autism rates. The results? No change.
The research on thimerosal and autism is damned robust. There is no fucking connection. Period!
You can read about it here: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-final-nail-in-the-mercury-autism-hypothesis/
Vaccines are very safe. And the lack of vaccinations has now brought polio back, very near these shores, when I didn't think I would ever again see it when I was first vaccinated as a kid in the fifties. Up until that time kids at school would occasionally just disappear, victims of polio. Others walked the halls -- with much difficultu -- with their leg braces. It has been almost 60 years. The children who may suffer from a polio outbreak here... Or suffer and die from measles, or pertussis, or other diseases curable with a simple inoculation. They are all on the conscience of the anti-vaccination idiots. Idiots!
I have said my peace here. Anti-vaccination has no leg to stand on. None.