Suit Claiming Thimerosal-Autism Connection Dismissed
A federal district court has dismissed a product liability suit against the manufacturer and a distributor of Ayr Saline Nasal Mist, which contains a tiny amount of the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal. The suit was filed by a parent and her autistic son who alleged that the boy’s autism was caused by three or four years of daily use of the spray. The expert evidence they offered was from geneticist Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D., whose professional activity is centered around the claim that mercury-containing vaccines are a major cause of autism. In a motion for summary judgment, the defendants argued that the plaintiffs had no reliable evidence to support their allegation the spray was generally capable of causing autism or had caused the boy’s autism …
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