Chris Edwards, an Oregon blogger, has a post about the link between Autism and the preservative thimerosol that was used for years in children’s vaccinations.
Go ahead, Chris, tell us how you really feel.
But today I am angered by the pompous arrogance of the scientific, medical, pharmaceutical and governmental establishments responsible for knowing better than the rest of us.
There, isn’t that better. Well, perhaps, but I really understand how he feels. Chris has a son that was recently diagnosed with Autism and it’s being blamed on the vaccinations that he got after birth. His son might have had autism anyway, but when you are talking about a tenfold increase in autism rates during the period when the preservative was used, it’s not hard to blame thimerosol and scientific cover-up.
We had a scare ourselves when our son was developing. Having been born in 1995, he was right in the middle of the period in question. We had heard of the problems with vaccinations by the time our second came around. But while she hasn’t had any issues, our son had some real developmental problems early on. We actually had him tested for autism, as he was displaying some classic signs of the syndrome, but fortunately it had to do with communication development. Ear infections, it seems, left him unable to hear much in a critical time of language development. Same symptoms, different problem. He’s doing really well now.
But I understand Chris’ anger.
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