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Congressman Dan Burton: It is time to re-engage on the autism epidemic

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Dan Burton is a U.S. Congressman, a legislator elected to represent the state of Indiana to the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Burton was once a frequent name in the discussion about autism. His grandson is autistic and Mr. Burton championed the idea that mercury, in specific the vaccine preservative thimerosal, was a possible cause [...]

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Why the next CDC autism rates spells bad news for the mercury hypothesis

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

A recent article on Disability Scoop discussed an upcoming CDC autism report. The MMWR’s(Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports) from the CDC have been one of the standards for autism prevalence for years. Each CDC prevalence estimate is calculated for a group of 8 year olds born in a certain year. For example, the last estimate [...]

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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 [...]

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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 »