Marketing to both sides of a ideology war is not evil.
I mean, only a few million soldiers died for the sake of freedom, though Coca-Cola didn't take any risks. They would have been in business either way.
I call it 'douchebagery'.
Mercury is toxic, but please don't throw around the proven-false line of the antivaccination crowd that it's linked to autism. This mainly came out of worries about the vaccine preservative thimerosal, which one study claimed was correllated with autism. No other studies found any link at all, and the study that claimed it
has now been retracted and its lead researcher
has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
And the studies suggest back and forth forever...
Published in the March 10, (2006) issue of the
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the data show since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders in children not only stopped increasing but actually dropped sharply by as much as 35 percent.
Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood neurological disorders, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives.
According to a statement from the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, or AAPS, the numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have risen to more than 1,000 by the beginning of 2006. But the number actually went down to 620, a real decrease of 22 percent, and a decrease from the projection of 35 percent.
Stated the AAPS: "This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine, which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program of the CDC. While not willing to either rule out or to corroborate a relationship between mercury and autism, the IOM soft-pedaled its findings and decided no more studies were needed."
- WorldNetDaily
