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Stop telling people the mercury really isn't a problem and just quit putting it in there as a preservative.

That's half the problem!

Mercury hasn't been in vaccines, and the confused compound hasn't been in vaccines for at least a decade:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy

Thiomersal is a mercury compound. Mercury is know to be bad for you. The research only tells us that the compound is out of the blood stream in X hours, it does not tell us that all the mercury is gone - i.e. the compound could break down and the mercury stored away. This is not certain, but given there are alternative we may as well use them - that was my point and it has nothing to do with autism.

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