1.) It's not blasphemy, but it is statistically irrelevant since the study was a case control study.<p>2.) MMR and thimerosal were singled out because anti-vaccine activists made the claim that they caused autism.<p>Now that those claims have been disproven, Jenny McCarthy and other anti-vaccine activists are making different claims.<p>Incidentally, I will be swayed from my position when I see some repeated, statistically significant evidence that vaccines are correlated with autism. At the moment, most of the evidence indicates no correlation.