Deadly Immunity

"Deadly Immunity" is an article written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that appeared in the July 14, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone and, simultaneously, on the website Salon.

[1] The article is focused on the 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference and claims that thimerosal-containing vaccines caused autism,[2] as well as the theory that government health agencies have "colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public.

"[3] The article had originally been fact-checked and published in print by Rolling Stone, but posted online by Salon.

[3][4] Such criticisms included that Kennedy had incorrectly claimed that the amount of mercury children received from thimerosal-containing vaccines was 187 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's limit for methylmercury exposure.

The correction later posted to the article on Salon stated that the actual amount, 187 micrograms, is only 40% greater than this limit.