Tag: thimerosal
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CDC’s Autism Reversal: Inside the Collapse of a 25‑Year Public Health Narrative
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 20, 2025) — On November 19, 2025, quietly and without ceremony, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website and rewrote one of the most politically charged sentences in modern American medicine. A sentence that had been treated as gospel—“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism”—was suddenly recast…
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An Historic Day for Children’s Health: The ACIP Vote Against Thimerosal Is a Long-Overdue Triumph of Knowledge Over Narrative
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jun. 26, 2025) — Today, June 26, 2025, marks a watershed in the history of public health. In a decisive 5–1 vote, the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) formally recommended against the continued use of thimerosal-containing influenza vaccines for children and pregnant women. While the headlines…
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Jeremy Hammond Debunks Jake Tapper’s Criticism of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: SUMMARY
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023, reposted with permission (Jun. 30, 2023) — Jeremy Hammond wrote and published a deeply researched and fully referenced dissection of Jake Tapper’s denial-based critique of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s position that thimerosal is, contrary to the official narrative, harmful. Below is my review of the main points.…
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Looking for Answers to the Autism Epidemic in All the Wrong Places
“AN ESCALATING PANDEMIC” by Joan Swirsky, ©2014 (Apr. 2, 2014) — Just last week, on March 24, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) released its latest data on autism. After surveying medical and school records from 11 states, the CDC found that autism has more than doubled since the new…