Are the CDC, the FDA and other health agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused an epidemic of autism? The fact that mercury can cause autism is not news, that has been known for many years. Recent studies and older ones support this concept. Now Mother Jones News is asking the following:
- Did the use of a mercury preservative in vaccines directly contribute to the autism epidemic plaguing the country?
- Did federal health officials--fearful of liability facing their agencies and vaccine manufacturers, and loss of compliance with the federal vaccine program--put such concerns above the health of millions of infants?
- Are the recent studies discounting a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs) and autism really rife with conflicts of interest and data manipulation? Or are the parents, researchers and members of Congress who make such claims seeing conspiracies where none exist?
Mother Jones News March/April 2004