America's leading scientific organization investigating the risks that mercury-containing medical products pose to our children-has posted the results of an investigative analysis of several authors relied upon for the flawed Institute of Medicine (IOM) report issued last week attempting to purport a lack of evidence to the mercury-vaccine-autism link.
"Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest is an essential tenet to good science," stated Sallie Bernard, executive director of SafeMinds, "but here we have a situation where authors of 'studies' are probably quite literally writing to preserve their jobs."
Bernard was responding to last week's IOM's report that used prejudiced science to conclude a minimal risk between mercury in vaccines and autism. "The IOM gave unusual weight to several authors from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Denmark.