The need to place blame: The Feds are again fending off parents about the vaccine-autism link

“The government assembled some leading scientists Tuesday to try again to lay to rest public suspicions that a mercury-based preservative once used in childhood vaccines causes autism.

A day before parents who blame the chemical were to complain to Congress, federal health officials stressed that the only childhood vaccines that still contain the preservative are some, but not all, flu shots and that there’s no credible evidence that it caused the brain disorder anyway.”

Orac has blogged about this extensively.

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