Another Comment on Danish Study: Mercury Not Addressed, Not Controlled, Not Irrelevant

Dr. Rimland also took the opportunity to comment on the controversial Danish study, rejecting it as "another propaganda piece intended to assuage the public's concerns rather than shed light on the MMR-Autism connection." He continues:

"The report starts out by saying that it has been 'suggested' that there is a connection between vaccination and autism, trivializing the substantial body of clinical and laboratory evidence for such a connection. By saying 'it has been suggested', it does not impress me with the objectivity of the authors. I was also very disappointed to see that the authors failed to mention that the mercury-containing Thimerosal is not included in the pediatric vaccines used in Denmark. That is a crucial omission . . .it precludes their findings from being considered applicable to the US population where the children's immune systems, brains and gastrointestinal systems have been subjected to many times the supposedly 'safe' level of mercury because of mercury-laden vaccines.

"The fact that the Danish study reports much lower (50%) prevalence rate for autism in their country than the current US figures is a likely result of their having banned Thimerosal from their vaccines, and reinforces the inapplicability of their findings to the US population." – Bernard Rimland, ARI