The reason they said Thimerosal is beneficial can be found in the Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Financial support for the establishment of the ALSPAC cohort was provided
by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Department of
Health, the Department of the Environment, and DfEE, the National
Institutes of Health, and a variety of medical research charities and
commercial companies.

Funding for this study was provided by the Department of Health (Ref VIE
134/1).

We are extremely grateful to all of the mothers who took part and to the
midwives for cooperation and help in recruitment. The whole ALSPAC study
team comprises interviewers, computer technicians, laboratory technicians,
clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, and managers who
continue to make the study possible. The ALSPAC study is part of the World
Health Organization initiated European longitudinal study of pregnancy and
childhood.

So much for the peer review process. Unbelievable. -rick

Mercury-Containing Vaccines May Help Not Harm Kids

Health - Reuters
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=5&amp
;u=/nm/20040917/hl_nm/vaccine_mercury_dc

Friday, Sept. 17, 2004

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There have been widespread
concerns that mercury-based preservatives used in
vaccines might impair the neurological development of
children, but the opposite seems to be true.

Immunizing infants with vaccines containing the preservative
thimerosal may actually be associated with improved
behavior and mental performance, according to two British
studies published in the medical journal Pediatrics.

Dr. Jon Heron of the University of Bristol, and colleagues
followed 12,956 children, born in 1991 and 1992, until
they were about 7-1/2 years old. Information was collected
on doses of thimerosal-containing
diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
vaccines given at ages 3, 4, and 6 months, as well as on
measures of behavior, fine motor skills, speech, tics and
special education needs.

Instead of finding that outcomes were worse with increasing
exposure to thimerosal, the authors saw less hyperactivity
and conduct problems at 47 months, better motor development
at 6 months and at 30 months, and reduced difficulty with
sounds and need for speech therapy.

In the second report, Dr. Nick Andrews of the Communicable
Disease Surveillance Center, London, and colleagues
conducted a look-back study involving 107,152 children born
between 1988 and 1997.

There appeared to be protective effects from
thimerosal-containing vaccine exposure for general
developmental disorders, attention-deficit disorder, and
unspecified developmental delay.

The only condition associated with increased risk with
increasing thimerosal exposure was tics. However, "the vast
majority of tics were minor transient events," the authors
note.

Hence, they conclude that "there is no reason to change
current immunization practices with thimerosal-containing
vaccines on grounds of safety."

SOURCE: Pediatrics, September 2004.


The reason they said Thimerosal is beneficial can be found in the
Acknowledgmentsâ?¦ -rick

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Financial support for the establishment of the ALSPAC cohort was provided
by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Department of
Health, the Department of the Environment, and DfEE, the National
Institutes of Health, and a variety of medical research charities and
commercial companies.

Funding for this study was provided by the Department of Health (Ref VIE
134/1).

We are extremely grateful to all of the mothers who took part and to the
midwives for cooperation and help in recruitment. The whole ALSPAC study
team comprises interviewers, computer technicians, laboratory technicians,
clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, and managers who
continue to make the study possible. The ALSPAC study is part of the World
Health Organization initiated European longitudinal study of pregnancy and
childhood.