Another cut and paste-a-thon falls flat

DQ: "Here, let's try it again and narrow the search a bit."

I applaud your willingness to try again - but that search gets you even more hopelessly lost than before.

Aside from the fact that nothing you turned up has anything to do with vaccines, much of it doesn't even relate to the National Institutes of Health or your claim that the NIH is biased towards industry. For example, one of your links takes us to a study on aspartame:

"WASHINGTON - A huge federal study in people — not rats — takes the fizz out of arguments that the diet soda sweetener Aspartame might raise the risk of cancer.

No increased risk was seen even among people who gulped down many artificially sweetened drinks a day, said researchers who studied the diets of more than half a million older Americans.

A consumer group praised the study, done by reputable researchers independent of any funding or ties to industry groups.'

So the story you linked to actually helps _disprove_ your theory that such research is fatally biased. :)

Most of your other links don't show anything about alleged NIH bias either - as in the case of a study on Depression that was performed by workers at Mass. General Hospital, not the NIH.

Obviously you cut and pasted a bunch of stuff without bothering to read it.

And you're still dragging in a British health agency completed unrelated to the National Institutes of Health (see "Is society losing control of the medical research agenda"). Oddly enough, the author of this irrelevant paper you're triumphantly citing, Brendan Delaney, has some interesting connections to Big Pharma:

"Competing interests: BD has been paid a speaker's honorarium and travel expenses by Astra-Zeneca, Wyeth, Reckitt Benkiser, AxCan Pharma, and Takeda; he has also been paid for advice on research by Astra-Zeneca, Wyeth, and Merck."

This is the second discussion I've had with you recently in which you claimed support from people with big-time connections to Big Pharma. Very odd.

All of your smoke-screening about Conspiracies aside, what the evidence tells us (and what you're so unwilling to address) is that the vaccine-mercury-autism link has been thoroughly debunked. Immunization remains an extremely successful and valuable part of our public health programs. It's a pity that some want to deny this protection to our children because of blind prejudice.