Saturday, April 16, 2005
To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate?
Really is not much of a question. From "Junk Science" via FOXNews
Roughly 95 percent of my reader responses came from parents of autistic children angered by my column because they feel passionately that thimerosal - a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines for over 60 years - causes autism. The other five percent came mostly from medical professionals who applauded the column because, like me, they advocate the mainstream medical opinion that thimerosal-containing vaccines aren't related to autism.I am always stunned how people who would consider faith in God irrational will search for other, far more irrational, explanations for things. These poor parents of this very disabled children can find solace only in blaming the medical industry, even when the blame is baseless. I would sure rather find solace in God.
Although this debate has raged for years, and will likely rage for many more, a decisive turn for many in the medical community came with the 2004 release of a definitive report from the National Academy of Sciences? Institute of Medicine which reviewed several decades worth of studies concerning a possible link between thimerosal and autism.
