thimerosal

I put this in Social rather than Medicine because it's the social aspect which interests me. I was at a family party last month, when the topic turned to a 15 minute discussion about how evil mercury in vaccines was. With the exception of me and three old women, who had no clue, but agreed...

When I started wearing contact lenses in 1985, I had a bad reaction to the cleaning solution. My eyes turned red and the lids were swollen. I was told that I was allergic to thimerosal in the cleaner and saline solution. Later, I used cleaner and saline solution for "sensitive eyes", which...

Briefly, I've managed to find myself in a couple of discussions with anti-vaccination people and I've run into a couple of problems. The first is how exactly did science determine how much thimerosal a human could ingest before being killed? Is it extrapolated from animal testing or is it based...

I was going over some past articles on the two major candidates for president, and came across this: John McCain Enters the Autism Wars This opening paragraph reads: The article was posted February 29, 2008 at 7:11 PM on the ABC News website by Jake Tapper as part of his blog. Has Mr...

In general I am a pretty tolerant person when it comes to woo -- if it's not hurting anybody, then people are welcome to believe whatever wierdness trips their trigger. But there are certain areas in which woo beliefs do active harm and for these I have no pity. One of the most egregious of...

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Autism_cases_up_even_with_vaccine_c_01072008.html Looks like it wasn't mercury. Yet another "correlation is not causation" lesson. The whippings will continue until morale improves.

There will be a debate between the author of Evidence of Harm and the author of the article Sticking Up for Thimerosal in Slate, whose book Vaccine will becoming early next year. The debate will be on Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. in the Price Center, University of California, San Diego. As you can...

The governator suspended a california law banning thimerosal, citing a public health emergency. http://www.sacbee.com/296/story/71014.html Here come the conspiracy theories.

The Geiers are up to their data-mining exercises again, trying to link thimerosal with autism, with this publication in the "alternative" right wing and anti-vaccine publication rag grandiosely entitled The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Fortunately Orac and others (such as Tara...

When I saw that the reincarnated-pilot boy episode was due to air on Primetime on ABC, I went to their web site to possible write them again. My letter to them last time was printed in Randi's Swift column as well as Michael Shermer's email newsletter. But I stumbled across a thread about how...

Link. After that the writer address mercury in fillings, episotemties, bird flu, and a few other things. But I thought I'd pass on a bit of positivity.

You'll need a subscription, although I believe you can sign up for a day (annoying commercial to view) Main story. Thimerosal "resource guide" And an anecdote. Too much to summarize.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7712/7712.pdf