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In reply to the discussion: Guess the number of comments @ NJ.COM on "Autism continues to climb, with NJ rates now the highest" [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Parents should not be deferred to because parent advocacy is significantly responsible for the mistaken focus on a nonexistent vaccine/autism link (for a start), along with the promotion of harmful quackery like Lupron and chelation therapy and much else besides. For instance see above re "thimerosal exposure". This is ignorant bullshit that needs to fucking stop. There is NO LINK between thimerosal and autism or vaccines and autism. Thimerosal in any case has NOT been in childhood vaccines in over a decade. Thimerosal was NEVER in the MMR vaccine, the one vaccine most closely associated with a hypothetical link to autism thanks to Andrew Wakefield's bogus paper that was retracted by the Lancet and that he got struck off the medical register for.