Re: Another Post that Exposes A Pathetic Lack Of Understanding About Immunization

"There were "significant associations" observed yet we are to believe thimerosal has NO effect? Patently impossible."

I see you didn't read the summary or its conclusions.

"What the hell is "a few" anyway? And of the alleged positives, what were the actual tests that were intrepreted by the group to be a positive?"

I see you didn't read the summary or its conclusions.

"Where did this crap come from anyway?"

I see you didn't take the time to check out the study before firing broadsides wildly in all directions, and missing the target (as usual).

The study is from the New England Journal of Medicine. Here are the positive and negative associations the authors found regarding the tiny amount of mercury preservative young children used to be exposed to:

"Higher prenatal mercury exposure was associated with better performance on one measure of language and poorer performance on one measure of attention and executive functioning. Increasing levels of mercury exposure from birth to 7 months were associated with better performance on one measure of fine motor coordination and on one measure of attention and executive functioning. Increasing mercury exposure from birth to 28 days was associated with poorer performance on one measure of speech articulation and better performance on one measure of fine motor coordination."

Even though the authors found kids with higher prenatal mercury exposure did better on some tests of brain function than other children and not as well on others, these differences were small, and the overall conclusion is that thimerosal exposure makes no real difference one way or the other.


http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/13/1281


If your brain cannot process this information, maybe you'd better cut back on the Oleander soup and the other vast amounts of goop you consume (and urge others to gulp down). :)
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