An article and a subheading in The Times Magazine on Sunday about the possibility of a link between brain development in children and thimerosal, a preservative formerly used in vaccines, misstated the views of Dr. Neal Halsey, a Johns Hopkins researcher. Dr. Halsey says that when he described thimerosal injury as a possibility that ''must be addressed,'' he was referring to developmental delay, not to autism. Thus the subheading -- under the title ''The Not-So-Crackpot Autism Theory'' -- erred in saying of a possible autism link that Dr. Halsey ''thinks it's an issue worth investigating.''


 

Published: 11 - 15 - 2002 , Late Edition - Final , Section A , Column 5 , Page 2