OR, the reason for the increase in autism is NOT because of the thimerosal/mercury but some other nasty stuff in the vaccines. They found a correlation between autism and vaccine and thought is was the thimerosal so they removed it from the vaccines and manipulated the statistics to lower the percentage of autism during the period when thimerosal was used. Then in the years later the higher statistics of autism REMAINED even without the thimerosal. So they did a double blunder: manipulation of the statistics for autism and deciding that the reason for increased autism was the thimerosal in the vaccines. OR, it was a deliberate blunder, sponsored and devised by the pharma industry as a smokescreen to hide the real cause of the autism which is some of the other ingredients in the vaccine. And by making the legal medical authorities guilty of manipulating statistics the pharma industry could use that to blackmail the medical legal government authorities. Machiavellian strategies all the way, baby.