Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism

jamie found an article over at Washington Monthly discussing the recent finding that there is no link between thimerosal and autism. It seems that after the mercury-based vaccine preservative was withdrawn from use in 1999, no drop in autism rates has been observed in a large California study. Here's the Science Daily writeup on the study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Re:But, but, but,

[darken9999]

Why would someone hate vacations?

Re:Conspiracy nutters won't be discouraged

[solar_blitz]

Dear God, I would like to file a bug report.

Re:Conspiracy nutters won't be discouraged

[R2.0]

"Most of them would benefit from a good solid course in basic logic (to overturn the fallacies they base their 'theories' on)"

I used to be a grader at Lehigh for the Informal Logic course - trust me, there are some folks you CAN'T teach logic to.

And if there's anyone out there who took the course between about '87 & '90: I'm the one who graded your homework "0 plus" on a scale from 0 to 2 - you may have handed it in, but there was no resemblance in any of your answers to anything remotely resembling logic. And you weren't the only one who got that grade.

Re:Flouride?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that like fluoride, but used in bread and cakes?

Re:Inaccurate

[Anonymous Coward]

I love the way my earlier post is modded as a troll. NOTE TO FUCKWIT MOD: Having a contrary opinion backed up by actual knowledge is NOT a troll.

Do you have links to your "actual knowledge" for verification? Note that GeoCities pages with animated spinning GIF skulls and flames are not considered reliable sources of information.

Re:But, but, but,

[Anonymous Coward]

No, infallibility is reserved for God and His religion. (Which one? Why all of them of course.)

LOL

Re:Any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down

[Dr.Enormous]

"One business-class ticket for the Crazy Train, please."
"Coming right up, sir. Enjoy your trip."

Re:Well damn!

[Alzheimers]

No, but I know that Wapner's on at 4.

Re:Flouride?

[Rui del-Negro]

Is that the active ingredient in flour?

Re:Any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down

[Dachannien]

Global Warming.
Increasing gas mileage and alternate energy
Voting machine fraud, WMD's, Kennedy, John Lennon, Ghandi, Tim Leary,
GM vs. Organic food. Smoking causing or not causing cancer, Marijuana
Tesla, Laithwaite, Hutchinson, Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Columbus
Perendev, Searl, Cold Fusion, The Earth Being round, String Theory, E8,Quantum Physics , Roswell
Jesus, Moses, Noah, The Ark of the covenant, the chalice, Troy, 12/12/2012, the holocaust, revelations.

Everybody now! We didn't start the fire....

Re:Any contradictory beliefs must be beaten down

[ve3oat]

It can be proven that tomatoes kill. Any person who eats tomatoes eventually dies. Tomatoes are so toxic and habit-forming that they eventually kill anyone who eats them. If they stop eating tomatoes, they will eat something else as a substitute but that still kills them too. Strangely, even people who are born and grow up without ever having eaten tomatoes all eventually die anyway due to the lack of exposure to toxic tomatoes. Tomatoes are truely a two-edged sword. I have not tested the effect of mercury on this fatal tomato toxicity.