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The Age of Autism: Pay no attention
By DAN OLMSTED
UPI Senior Editor
There's a Steely Dan album called Pretzel Logic that could be the theme song of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as it struggles with concerns over vaccines and autism.
At least in our view, it is a bit twisted -- logically speaking -- to simultaneously spend taxpayer money to keep studying whether a mercury preservative causes autism, yet recommend that pregnant women and children get vaccines containing that preservative. Especially so when alternatives are available that are free of the preservative, called thimerosal.
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source: http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060302-111157-7494r
By DAN OLMSTED
UPI Senior Editor
There's a Steely Dan album called Pretzel Logic that could be the theme song of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as it struggles with concerns over vaccines and autism.
At least in our view, it is a bit twisted -- logically speaking -- to simultaneously spend taxpayer money to keep studying whether a mercury preservative causes autism, yet recommend that pregnant women and children get vaccines containing that preservative. Especially so when alternatives are available that are free of the preservative, called thimerosal.
( Read more... )
source: http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060302-111157-7494r
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