Vaccines and Autism

Linked? Nope, says "the writer who first told the thimerosal story in depth in the New York Times Magazine two and a half years ago":

Bobby Kennedy Jr. ...recently discovered a new cause....he accuses government vaccine scientists and their academic advisers of covering up what for him is an uncontestable fact: the causal link between a mercury-containing preservative called thimerosal in vaccines and a massive increase in childhood autism in America.

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...four perfectly good studies comparing large populations of kids have showed that thimerosal did not cause the increased reporting of autism.

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The Institute of Medicine agreed that the special medical problems of some autistics deserve closer scrutiny. But like the Institute of Medicine, I doubt that vaccine damage will figure into the story. And in the meantime, lawsuits could do severe damage to the vaccination programs that protect all of us.