{"id":953,"date":"2003-03-02T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2003-03-02T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=953"},"modified":"2003-03-02T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2003-03-02T11:07:08","slug":"vaccine-news-slightly-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"VACCINE NEWS Slightly OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>VACCINE NEWS<\/b><\/i> Slightly OT but a hot-button issue for some homeschoolers.  Thimerasol, a mercury-based preservative, has been accused by some of causing (or triggering) autism.  Scientific studies are slim-to-none so, for now, there is just a correlation between the use of thimerasol and the incidence of autism.  Parents were outraged when a rider was slipped into the Homeland Security bill protecting Eli Lilly (the manufacturer) from lawsuits.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/tu-online\/stories\/030203\/met_11879136.shtml\">this article<\/a>, the protection for Lilly was recently repealed.  Good!  I know how companies can get nailed by juries who don&#8217;t necessarily have a good understanding of the science.  My own employer, DuPont, was hit by a bunch of lawsuits over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dupont.com\/corp\/news\/releases\/2000\/nr06_29_00.html\">Benlate<\/a>.  But, IMO, preventing lawsuits by means of special legislation is a cure worse than the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VACCINE NEWS Slightly OT but a hot-button issue for some homeschoolers. Thimerasol, a mercury-based preservative, has been accused by some of causing (or triggering) autism. Scientific studies are slim-to-none so, for now, there is just a correlation between the use of thimerasol and the incidence of autism. Parents were outraged when a rider was slipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}