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Quote by: PatrickHenry So tivodan, you have expert knowledge of your own that autism is NOT linked to mercury? Because researchers have made the opposite allegations. I am not a medical researcher, but here is a webpage from a US National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine hearing on the issue. Those who had no conflicts of interest were unanimous that there is a link between autism and vaccines. http://www.universityofhealth.net/NAS/NAS%20Roster.htm |
hahaha, you almost got me there.... I
almost believed that link you provided, until I checked out what that website actually is. It's an anti-vaccine, alternative "medicine" website! Gee, a group like that would have no reason whatsoever to have bias that vaccines are dangerous. Funny, you fault me for linking a columnist who happens to freelance for foxnews.com, and then you point everyone to websites which aren't even reputable enough to hire a decent webpage designer. Furthermore, reading the site does not provide any scientific data regarding a connection between autism and thimerosal. What it does provide is evidence that doctors are as much subject to fallacies of belief and unfounded anecdotal evidence as the rest of us. This site is a poll of merely 15 doctors who bothered to gather at an "Immunization Safety Review" which already biases the pool of opinion, because doctors who believe immunizations are safe have no reason to attend such an occasion.
Still, my challenge stands: Submit to this board an original source of ONE, JUST ONE scientific study proving even a slight correlation between thimerosal and autism. Since you need help determining what that constitutes, here's what it is not:
-Informal polling of small groups of doctors who may or may not have studied the topic.
-Quotes from supposed "experts"
-Publications of anti-vaccine organizations
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Yet the document they released denied the link: The coverup is in the quid pro quo that exists to profit Big Pharma. Shills with medical degrees get megabucks to gloss over health issues. Then when the debates occur on the web, there is cover for those who refuse to see the serious nature of the issues, like you, tivodan. Vaccinations, yes. Thimerosal, no.
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And thus, exposing your own bias... The fact that you call the pharmaceutical industry "Big Pharma" and say that my request for one scientific study is "cover" shows that you are the type of person that thinks if 3 people share a table at a restaurant it's a conspiracy. Quite simple: No Link=Nothing to Cover Up. Call me when you have the facts. Of course, by the time you can get those the phone will have been replaced with telepathy implants, but still...