P.S. RE: thimerosal, it is unfortunate that one person led the whole medical research astray and because of his bad practices, the whole line of inquiry is discredited. Now people think that just because the thimerosal research was botched, the concerns about organic mercury are no longer warranted. Research can be blatantly false and take down the good reasearch along with it, I see it all the time. And look, any way you slice it, the organic mercury compounds are very poorly understood in the physiological context, as they are exceedingly difficult to trace. And they have killed at least one very prominent chemist who thought she understood them.
In the end, the autism-related research may well have been unethical/wrong/misguided... but mark my words: we will eventually understand the neurochemistry better than we do now, and when we do, it'll suprise some people and not surprise others. Meanwhile, instead of being cautious, we will continue to risk the mental health of a generation of children. Could be thimerosal, may not be thimerosal... who is profiting by passing on the risk that it isn't all well and good for all patients? The industry pushing this stuff is about profit, not about safety. What if we eventually find out that, just like the tobacco companies, they actually know more than they care to divulge? Or that they simply didn't test long-term effects while the govt was pushing them to manufacture vaccine at historically unprecedented rates?!
Sorry to go off topic....