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In reply to the discussion: Robert F Kennedy Jr compares childhood vaccines to Nazi Death Camps... [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,432 posts)The MMR, which has been the subject of much of the controversy, never did.
The flu vaccine is the only one that sometimes still contains mercury, and you can ask to get it without mercury.
Removing mercury from vaccines, though a good thing in itself, did not change autism rates.
By the way: it's worth noting that early 20th century kids often got far more mercury than kids nowadays. It was often prescribed in medicines and even teething powders. This was certainly a bad thing, and many children got sick, or even died. But this goes against the idea of autism as 'a modern epidemic caused by mercury in vaccines'. Perhaps there were more autistic children then than now (I would not be surprised in fact, though the diagnostic category did not exist them); but this also goes against the anti-vaccine propaganda.
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