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A father-son research team determined that new diagnoses of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders have dropped since then after analyzing data from the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the U.S. Department of Education and the California Department of Developmental Services.

Additional doses of mercury-containing vaccines were associated with a 2- to 8-fold increase in risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, they wrote in the latest issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

"Significant decreasing trends in newly diagnosed (disorders) were observed ... from mid-2002 through 2005," wrote Dr. Mark Geier and son, David. Mark Geier is president of the Genetic Centers of America and his son is a graduate student in biochemistry at George Washington University.

So, they used the VAERS database? What value is there in analyzing this database? Read about the report submitted by a physician that the influenza vaccine turned him into The Incredible Hulk.

Anecdotally, I received a call last fall from the CDC about a report we filed with the database about a child who got chickenpox after receiving Varivax vaccine IN 1996. It took them 9 years to follow up on the report.