[Dan Evans]

I only heard about the mercury compounds used in vaccines vaguely associated with autism, not asthma. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's one:

http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/asthma2.html

The general rule is:

1) Find any malady.

2) Find any popular bugaboo.

You will find some lawyer who blames 1 on 2.

"Blame" is the big issue here because of the huge legal penalties. Having allergies myself, I've thought a lot about this gray area between internal and external cause. But how does a jury translate that into liability. If someone is allergic to everything, should we ban every substance -- sue every manufacturer ?

No doubt that asthma is real and people die from it, but do you believe the epidemic is real?

[neverdem]

Thanks for the interesting link. It will take more than that to change the public health establishment. Even if the link to atopy is true, they have to argue against overall mortality and morbidity statistics before and after a particular vaccination program started.

[neverdem]

An interesing thought came to me after happening across a cable news/talk show that was discussing the medication of pediatric psychiatric diagnoses. Could this vaccination hypothesis also explain the epidemic of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, pediatric depression, etc.?