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Heavy Metal in Children’s Tooth Enamel: Related to Autism and Disruptive Behaviors?

Monday, July 11th, 2011

The idea that mercury causes autism has been around for over 10 years now. The data have been overwhelmingly against the hypothesis. The risk of autism doesn’t increase with thimerosal exposure from vaccines (e.g. Prenatal and infant exposure to thimerosal from vaccines and immunoglobulins and risk of autism and a number of other studies.) There [...]

Posted in Autism, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 9 Comments »

Underimmunization in Ohio’s Amish: Parental Fears Are a Greater Obstacle Than Access to Care

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

With apologies for opening the subject of the Amish and autism once again, a recent paper in the journal Pediatrics explores vaccination and the Amish: Underimmunization in Ohio’s Amish: Parental Fears Are a Greater Obstacle Than Access to Care. Seth Mnookin has already discussed this at The Panic Virus at PLoS blogs in Anecdotal Amish-don’t-vaccinate [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Autism Epidemic, Dan Olmsted, Epidemiology, Mercury, Science, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 22 Comments »

The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won’t Go Away

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Who said it was? Backstory: “The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won’t Go Away” is a recent blog post by David Kirby at the Huffington Post. Yes, he’s come back to talk about autism and vaccines. I say again: who says the debate is going away? The scientific debate on the main issues: thimerosal and the [...]

Posted in Autism, MMR, Mercury, Panic Virus, Seth Mnookin, Thimerosal, Vaccines, Wakefield | 52 Comments »

Sloppy science – a perfect example of how the anti-vaccine crowd will listen to anything

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Both Age of Autism and David Kirby have recently reported on a new review paper with Age of Autism describing it as ‘pretty interesting’ and David repeating a part of the abstract: Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination. So, should we all in the skeptic camp [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Myths, Geier, MMR, Measles, Mercury, News, Science, Thimerosal, Vaccines, Wakefield, badscience | 252 Comments »