vaccines + HG = autism:

1) The only way to conclusively prove that the mercury exposure in outdated vaccines causes autism would be to determine that a vaccinated/autistic child had no other mercury exposure outside that administered in the vaccine. Given that autism diagnosis rates have not decreased since mercury was eliminated from vaccine production the link between thimersol and autism becomes unlikely; imho. However, in the absence of child development mercury toxicity data (read: how much mercury is in a vaccine and how much is required [by body weight] for a child to develop autism?) it is a possibility that given the right genetic predisposition that a child vaccinated with sufficient toxic levels of mercury could develop autism. Unless I'm mistaken, the necessary data to conclusively prove otherwise doesn't exist and/or would be unethical and/or impossible to obtain. Therefore, there is no way to logically assert that thimersol in vaccines causes autism. In the absence of data not included in this thread, that statement cannot be made.

2) I was merely pointing out that there are plenty of vaccines (including those for influenza) that do not contain thimersol (or mercury). You said they all do and that's clearly not the case. Naturally, older lots of discontinued vaccines are still in use, but it is possible to get vaccinated without mercury exposure. Stating that all flu vaccines contain thimersol/mercury is inaccurate, misleading, and needlessly frightening.