Apologies for replying late. Perhaps I didn't phrase it quite clearly enough. What I meant by not saying why those chemicals were used in vaccines was that why would the people making the vaccines put those chemicals, chemicals that to a layperson would seem terrible to put in a vaccine, over alternative chemicals.
Yes, mercury is very dangerous. Even at very low doses it can cause severe damage. Except that mercury is not dangerous in Thimerosal because of how mercury is bound in the molecule.
Yes, there has been an increase in diagnoses of neurological disorders and diagnoses of neurological disorders, but guess what, so has our understanding of the human brain.
All I was saying is that most people don't understand chemistry or statistics. It's not really there fault. It's not necessarily that the material is hard, just that it takes time to learn and there are a lot of potential pitfalls to learning. It took a very long time for humans to discover what we know today. So when presented with correlation between a chemical they probably don't know much about and autism it might freak them out and they might not consider why two things appear to correlate and why this correlation means nothing. Correlation and anecdotal evidence mean nothing in science.
An import idea to consider when trying to determine a causal relationship between two events is by what mechanism would the first event cause the second.
Also some food for thought, ideas that people understand seem obvious, but ideas that people do not understand seem ridiculous.
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