Two separate items regarding the claimed link between vaccinations and bad health outcomes: a while back, based on toxicology data for methyl mercury, there was concern that vaccines preserved with ethyl mercury might cause health problems (the use of ethyl mercury was or is being phased out in the US as a result.) This reasoning from one form of mercury to another was simply because we didn't have enough toxicology data for ethyl.
Now a study from South America, where ethyl mercury is still used in vaccines, demonstrates that children excrete ethyl mercury much faster than methyl -- in about 11 days as opposed to 70. So weak science, at best, was allowed to generate another vaccination scare.
Meanwhile and more directly, a third study (and the largest so far,) shows no link between the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
Why do I care enough about all this to use up electrons on it? Just because I'm fascinated by mythology, urban and otherwise, plus a concern that the more people who are allowed to use personal beliefs to avoid vaccinations, the more the diseases in question will continue to be a problem.
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