Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity

[truedelphi]

36. The only reason that mercury in autism is still not linked to mercury is

because of the very sloppiness of the study that was used as the "definitive proof" that mercury was not the autism culprit.

Again, I will echo Bemildred's statement of the idea that autism will probably prove to be multi-causal.

But when an American researcher(s) looks at the data supplied from the past histories of children who were vaccinated with vaccines containing mercury, and then compares that data with data gleaned from children whose vaccines contained formaldehyde, a compound almost as dangerous as mercury, as the substitute for the mercury, and that is considered science, I'd be willing to say, "Houston, we have a problem."

Yet that sort of study occurs all the time. Another example of such a ludicrous research set up is when researchers were trying to prove that lots of sugar in a diet has no relationship to children behaving "on a sugar high." So the children had their diets restricted in terms of actual sugar, but were fed cookies that contained either HFCS, or sugar itself, and then the result of that study was used to say that sugar doesn't alter children's behavior.