Many Parents of Children With ASD "Have Relied Upon Practitioners and Researchers Who Peddled Hope, Not Opinions Grounded in Science and Medicine"

Posted on March 13, 2010 by David Oliver
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Three more strikes against the claim that thimerosol causes autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Mead v. Secretary of HHS

King v. Secretary of HHS

Dwyer v. Secretary of HHS (- the quote in the title can be found in this opinion)

Be sure to read the discussions of Petitioners' expert Sander Greenland and his opinions about the limits of epidemiology - at least on the "what it can't rule out" end of the spectrum. One wonders what his answer would have been if instead he'd been asked to formulate an "intervention policy" based on the same epidemiological studies - all of which show no association between thimerosol and ASD, and none of which show a "clearly regressive" subset of ASD. See "Epidemiologic Measures and Policy Formulations: Lessons From Potential Outcomes", by Sander Greenland, free online.

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