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In reply to the discussion: Whooping Cough Back With a Vengeance in California [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)46. OMG! A TYPO!!!
Thimerosal made the vaccines cheaper by allowing for multi-use vials instead of single-use vials.
Nope. It allowed for multi-use vials to not be refrigerated. Multi-use vials were still available.
Unfortunately, since researchers now think there may be a number of environmental factors that are increasing the risk for autism, removing only one factor while the others are still increasing wouldn't give a clear result.
Which is why you blamed it all on Thimerosal.....oh wait, that makes absolutely no sense.
the use of Roundup and other glyphosates has been increasing; and they have also been linked to an increased risk of autism symptoms
Except for that pesky Africa problem. Yes, they aren't using glyphosates as much as the developed world, but there are plenty of places using it. And not having a problem.
That is a serious problem in epidemiological research -- when there are a combination of factors that could be causing harm, how do you untangle the effects of each?
Well, first of all you stop calling everything "Autism". Because you're lumping a lot of unrelated conditions under a single label. But that does help get grant money.
But we do KNOW that babies were receiving, in their combination of several vaccines, more thimerosal than had been approved by the FDA.
Might wanna look up "bioaccumulation".
Also, we also KNOW that removing Thimerosal from all vaccines did nothing to the rate of autism diagnoses. We also KNOW that it hasn't been in vaccines for 14 years, yet people like you are still pointing to it as a cause. Even when the child is under 14.
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Absolute idiot. IMO people refusing to vaccinate their kids should be brought up on child neglect
RKP5637
Dec 2014
#126
You gotta get 'em dip-tet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision.
Liberal Veteran
Dec 2014
#10
You are blaming the Anti-vaxxers for the mom not knowing what the TDaP vaccine was?
postulater
Dec 2014
#4
A 2009 study showed conclusively that the WC vaccine itself caused the exposure and the illness
truedelphi
Dec 2014
#8
Not quite: I think what they are saying is you could become colonized but not get the disease.
Liberal Veteran
Dec 2014
#155
Yes. The paper actually says the old vaccine worked better than the new one
Drahthaardogs
Dec 2014
#106
Kinda funny how anti-vax quackery intevitably has a funding stream that leads to quack supplements
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#20
If you mean the one in your now locked thread, no, it didn't. It showed immunity does not happen
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#77
My husband is a PhD chemist who doesn't want us to eat tuna, because of the risk
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#81
Yes, of course they're different. But Thimerosal has been linked to inflammation
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#103
I think you are waffling. Did the Thimerosal in the vaccines I took affect my child? nt
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#66
Yes, I did. Since you brought up Thimerosal during pregnancy, why not give a scientific
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#70
Yes....I really want a scientific, peer-reviewed explanation as to how thimerosal
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#83
Virtually every preservative known to man is toxic at a given exposure level
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#93
Which has zero to do with the thimersol risk myth you are trying to perpetuate
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#112
I'm curious: How does one activate the immune system without an inflammatory response?
Liberal Veteran
Dec 2014
#144
"safe intake of methyl mercury" which is not ethylmercury. You continue to argue that too much of
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#135
But other environmental factors have been greatly increasing during the same time period
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#87
Roundup is increasing, while thimerosal is decreasing, so autism is caused by
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#92
I am amused by the jump from thimerosal to roundup. I am still waiting to hear back on ethyl vs meth
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#97
It's thiomersal. You don't even know how to spell it, which isn't a good sign.
LeftyMom
Dec 2014
#75
How can you blame anti-vaxxers when the pregnant mom had never heard of the vaccine?
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#35
I invite all anti-vaxers to come visit me in India. I'll show them my neighborhood.
Recursion
Dec 2014
#120
Good question, I remember much the same. And, it was no BFD ... especially for Polio and
RKP5637
Dec 2014
#129
FYI & I predict that EVERYONE will draw the line somewhere eventually & acquire the label, even you.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2014
#136
Not spam, IMO, although top jpg only has been previously posted elsewhere -will delete upon request.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2014
#138