Wood Goblin wrote: arguing with you is an exercise in futility, because you are also one of the most close-minded persons I've ever encountered. I mean, seriously, you're using the same kind of arguments that global warming skeptics and creationists use!
You trust your government, and you think their studies that absolve the pharmaceuticals of blame are objective. You are just as biased as me, with less reason, because if you were a student of the Bush administration's and the GOP congress' cooperation with corporate power and its desire to be unregulated and free from litigation, you would share my suspicion. This history is available- check the FDA, check the lies about global warming, check the refusal to sign the Kyoto accord, check how they treat the mining industry's willingness to kill a few miners every few months. You are the one who needs to wake up.
Back to autism:
Based on this, and based on the top Eli Lilly bribe takers like Bill Frist who made this happen, I will continue to remain suspicious of the vaccine=autism link. If the pharmaceutical industry thought that the only litigation they were ever going to face would be based on 'correlation equals causation', they wouldn't have paid for this rider. I will continue to suspect that they are sitting on studies that prove the link between thimoseral and autism, and I don't remotely care what any corporate apologist tells me otherwise.
Political analysts and the parents of autistic children were baffled when it was learned, shortly after the passage of the HSA, that a rider to the bill had been added just prior to passage, that would shield Eli Lilly and the pharmaceutical industry from billions of dollars in anticipated lawsuits over vaccines. "It's a mystery to us," who inserted the rider, said Eli Lilly spokesman Rob Smith at the time. The provision was designed to force lawsuits over the preservative thimoseral, calling the suits into a special 'vaccine court'[1
