ARTHUR ALLEN: “As the writer who first told the thimerosal story in depth in the New York Times Magazine two and a half years ago, I have been astonished to see how badly it has been handled since. . . . Since then, four perfectly good studies comparing large populations of kids have showed that thimerosal did not cause the increased reporting of autism.”

I wonder if anti-vaccine activists will be held to the same standard of responsibility as the pharmaceutical companies they — often unjustly and sometimes dishonestly — criticize.