Dr. Steven Novella

It's not going to.

And there wasn't a blip, of course.

Now it's 24.

four years later.

But they, man, they dragged that out for as long as they could.

Oh, it's the mercury from coal-fired plants is replacing the mercury from vaccines.

Ridiculous arguments from a public health perspective.

So that basically proved, from their own rhetoric, that mercury in vaccines was not causing autism.

I think it was.

And we had this debate at the time.

Is this playing into it?

Or in the long run, is this a good thing?

I think it was a good thing in the long run.

First of all, it wasn't absolutely necessary, because we were shifting a lot to single-dose vaccines anyway.

And the only argument you can, from a practical point of view, you can make against it is that, especially in other countries, they were relying a lot on the multi-dose vaccines.

They were cheaper per dose, et cetera.

And it kind of was an elitist kind of thing to do, to say, we're going to get rid of these cheaper vaccines.

to help the worried well feel better.

But, you know, vaccines aren't a product, right?

They're a program, and they only work if you get public buy-in.