The New York Times article from this weekend commented on the irrational conspirator's view that science and the facts don't count. Thimerersol's removal from vaccines in Scandinavia in the 90s did nothing to slow the rate of autism in those countries. Still some go on about "Big Pharma". Scientific data should never be allowed to interfere with the conspiracy.
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In "Evidence of Harm," a book published earlier this year that is sympathetic to the notion that thimerosal causes autism, the author, David Kirby, wrote that the thimerosal theory would stand or fall within the next year or two.
Because autism is usually diagnosed sometime between a child's third and fourth birthdays and thimerosal was largely removed from childhood vaccines in 2001, the incidence of autism should fall this year, he said.
No such decline followed thimerosal's removal from vaccines during the 1990's in Denmark, Sweden or Canada, researchers say.
But the debate over autism and vaccines is not likely to end soon.
"It doesn't seem to matter what the studies and the data show," said Ms. Ehresmann, the Minnesota immunization official. "And that's really scary for us because if science doesn't count, how do we make decisions? How do we communicate with parents?"
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