Thimerosal-Derived Ethylmercury a Mitochondrial Toxin in Human Astrocytes (2012)

Posted by wavepruner on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:29PM
from the ncbi.nlm.nih.gov dept.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395253/

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Re:Thimerosal-Derived Ethylmercury a Mitochondrial Toxin in ... by Finch2192 on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:55PM (#21511148)

Not really sure how this made it on my HN frontpage. This is an oft-touted point of 'proof' for anti-vaccine folk. It's also, pretty flawed: https://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2012/12/thimer...

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Re:Thimerosal-Derived Ethylmercury a Mitochondrial Toxin in ... by bognition on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:57PM (#21511160)

The hypothesis that Thimerosal is toxic to humans has been largely disproven.

The source of this silly idea that vaccines are bad came when Andrew Wakefield published a study claiming the MMR vaccine caused autism. Alas, at the time he didn't disclose that he had a competing vaccine that he was unable to sell because the MMR vaccine was so effective.

However, people latched on to his study and now he were are 20 years latter with this faulty idea that vaccines are hurting people.

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