> Ah, so then you know that mercury in vaccines can cause autism in children?
No. This would be clear if you had read the sentence immediately following it.
That claim comes from a man, Andrew Wakefield, who was guilty of blatant ethics violations and manipulation of data. His paper was and is a lie, which is why it was retracted. Wakefield is an actual conspirator; he and some others were conspiring to give the MMR vaccine a bad rap so that they could make money from frivolous lawsuits, and so he could exploit a patent he had for an alternative MMR vaccine.
The claim is false. In fact, when thimerosal was removed from the MMR vaccine, that happened to (coincidentally) correspond with an increase in autism diagnosis, not a decrease as would be expected if the claim about a link between vaccines and autism were true.
In fact, the evidence is so clear that vaccines are safe and effective at preventing these deadly diseases, I would say that if you continue to spread this lie -- convincing more parents to put their children and other children in danger of contracting preventable, deadly diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and anything else vaccines protect against -- you will be guilty of mass manslaughter of children. That's all there is to it.
I'm not going to argue the point. But if anyone else who is reading this wants to see the issue discussed simply, here are a few videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXtANMp3wok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ZZTjChW4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65l1YAVaYc
