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Comment author: NatPhilosopher 15 January 2015 02:11:03PM *  2 points [-]

I pointed out I'm not cherrypicking and have discussed every relevant citation that I've found. Please post a citation that I missed that is within the scope of my investigation or retract your comment and any negative points you have given me.

Just to point out one other thing you might be missing: The scope of my investigation is whether the aluminum and many early vaccines are causing developmental damage. It explicitly omits the only things the safety surveys focus on, which is thimerosal and mmr and acute effects . I omitted these because (a) they claim to have removed it from vaccines (except flu) and (b) mmr doesn't have adjuvants and is normally given second year of life and (c) its the only thing they defend, so why attack it, which will only involve great effort and likely be hard to decide in the end anyway? For aluminum and many early vaccines, there is no defense in the scientific literature of their safety, its a walkover to all intents and purposes, so it made the review task of deciding on the safety straightforward as well as relatively simple.