thimerosal

CDC Exonerates Vaccines Years After Media Stirred Up Fears

julia.seymour — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:59:00 +0000

Dr. Frank DeStefano studied over 1,000 children; found no vaccine-autism connection.

Julia A. Seymour

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found further evidence that childhood vaccines and autism are “not related,” in spite of high profile anti-vaccination voices like actress Jenny McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

NBC's Snyderman: Vaccine-Autism Link 'Not Controversial'

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:25:31 +0000

Nathan Burchfiel

Rarely does a broadcast journalist passionately defend science and business. But NBC’s chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman did just that on the network’s “Today” show Oct. 30.

CBS Lauds Vaccines, Admits 'No Idea of What Actually Causes Autism'

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:38:13 +0000

Jeff Poor

Early childhood vaccinations have often been the target of advocacy groups and the media, who have linked them to autism.

But the June 4 “CBS Evening News” abandoned that philosophy and warned viewers that avoiding vaccinations could have a detrimental effect on a child’s health, backtracking on earlier reports “Evening News” has aired linking a vaccine preservative to conditions like autism.

CBS Does Turnabout on Mercury-based Thimerosal's Link to Autism

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:06:20 +0000

Jeff Poor

Health news can change in the blink of an eye, and that’s what happened on CBS News January 7.

The pharmaceutical industry had maintained all along that there’s no proven link between a vaccine preservative called thimerosal and autism. CBS repeatedly reported the opposite – until now.