[The Doctor]

Have you seen the results of research connecting autism with mercury in vaccines? It is convincing to me and would account for the lack of autism in non-developed countries.

[John H K]

Have you seen the results of research connecting autism with mercury in vaccines?Basically nonsense and the overwhelming body of research is on the other side of the issue.

But, there's a strong lobby that wants someONE to blame for something so horrible (and incidentally, somebody to sue.)

Developing countries don't have their children subjected to extensive psychological testing if they act weird or different. At best they may be diagnosed "retarded" like most autistic kids here have been. And plenty of vaccines are doled out and have been doled out in developing countries for years.

[neverdem]

I have recently read stories that the prevalence of autism is fairly equal around the globe. Regardless, they have decided to remove thimerisol, the preservative in question, from new vaccines.