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[pat]

I just read this article on a possible thimerasol-autism link in Salon (led there by an item in mactavish's journal). (Salon requires you to watch an ad for entrance, I did not simply recopy the text because it is too long and I think all of it is important.) It is written by Robert Kennedy, Jr. I have read other things he has written, and he is not just another liberal who hates the Administration. For one thing, the meeting which Kennedy writes about took place under the Clinton Administration.

For years, I have downplayed the vaccine - autism link. The studies just weren't there to support it, and the one study that showed a link had been repudiated last year by the journal that had published it. But data may have been suppressed that showed a correlation (and yes, I know correlation is not causation) between thimerasol and autism. (Thimerasol is a preservative used in vaccines.)

I could not find a proper mood icon: I cannot decide if I am more filled with horror, rage, or grief. And there is not one for "filled with seemingly bottomless pain."

Read it, and weep.

[Edit: my sweet, loving, autistic son just came in and asked why I was crying. I could not tell him.]

Comments

ouchy

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

words fail me.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(hits head)

How could we have known? If that's true, it might be a good idea to avoid current exposure to thimerasol (eyedrops, etc).

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

We could not have known - that's where the rage comes in. It's ironic, too -- we've been so careful to limit mercury exposures otherwise, such as in fillings.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I know that many of the eye solutions are now touted as thimerasol-free. Stay clear. And of course that underscores your wise plan of avoiding farm-raised fish, too.

*wordless hugs* to both of you.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

*hugs*