The VT killings have proven to be a cultural Rorschach test, with everybody pulling out their favorite ax to grind as the "cause" of Cho's homicidal rampage.

One blogger is keeping track. He has it up to 51 things being blamed for VT, pretty much what you'd expect. Everything from Gays, to Kos, to video games, to the military industrial complex etc.

The latest though, is most obnoxious of all. Alan E. Moses writes that it's vaccines that are to blame.

Wow. Just wow. Years after thimerosal has been removed from vaccines and diagnosis of autism is continuing to increase (although actual prevalence has probably remained stable), and these cranks just can't let go of the BS mercury autism hypothesis.

Orac takes him on very effectively. This isn't just the latest example of ghoulishness in the post-VT crusades, I think this is the most irresponsible. If you blame atheists like D'Souza did, you're just an idiot, but this continued denialism about vaccines is harmful to public health, the fraudulent chelation treatments by DAN doctors is dangerous quackery, and this denialism ultimately will result in harm to kids.

Labels: anti-Vax denialism