Senator John McCain’s recent comments providing support to the incorrect notion that childhood vaccines might be associated with autism are not just wrong, but completely irresponsible. Such pandering should be left to political issues and not to medical ones. The facts are these:
• Mercury (from the preservative thimerosal) was removed from all the routine pediatric vaccines in 2001 (the last remaining batches manufactured before that expired in 2003)
• Autism rates did not go down after that, in fact, they have gone up
So even if we were to postulate that there had been a causal association between mercury in vaccines and autism (which many studies have definitively refuted), it would not be relevant today. It’s a moot point. This is why his comments are irresponsible. Because they might scare off people from having their children immunized against a host of preventable illnesses, some of which have significant […]
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Senator John McCain’s recent comments providing support to the incorrect notion that childhood vaccines might be associated with autism are not just wrong, but completely irresponsible. Such pandering should be left to political issues and not to medical ones. The facts are these:
• Mercury (from the preservative thimerosal) was removed from all the routine pediatric vaccines in 2001 (the last remaining batches manufactured before that expired in 2003)
• Autism rates did not go down after that, in fact, they have gone up
So even if we were to postulate that there had been a causal association between mercury in vaccines and autism (which many studies have definitively refuted), it would not be relevant today. It’s a moot point. This is why his comments are irresponsible. Because they might scare off people from having their children immunized against a host of preventable illnesses, some of which have significant […]
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In a move that has already ignited a firestorm of criticism from doctors’ groups, ABC still plans to premiere its new legal drama “Eli Stone” tonight (January 31, 2008) in which a mother, whose child allegedly developed autism after receiving a mercury-containing vaccine, wins a $5.2 million dollar lawsuit against a fictional drug company. The show’s premise is based on a long-standing belief held by childhood immunization critics that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, formerly used in vaccines, is a primary cause of autism in children.
There are just two basic problems with this. First, countless medical studies have failed to show any link between vaccination and autism. But let’s say you don’t care about scientific studies or just don’t believe them. Well, the second, and more important fact, is that since 2001 no childhood vaccines have contained thimerosal or any other mercury-containing product! And autism rates […]
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