ON JUNE 11, 2007, NEARLY 5, 000 PARENTS OF autistic children registered a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that child years vaccines (specifically the mercury-containing thimerosal in the vaccines) brought on their children's autism. The prior year the New York Times ran a col-umn that was skeptical of the alleged hyperlink between autism and vaccines. It made this comment on an Internet message board. which is typical of the anecdotal thinking that perpetuates..
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