You could at least get your talking points from somewhere that at least updates them. Thiomersal is gone from all childhood vaccines except flu, and even then it's only in the multidose vials.

Then get your talking points straight. When somebody has concerns about thiomersal in the vaccine and the effect it may have on his child, stop yelling at him and calling him ignorant. Simply explain that the vaccine his child will receive will have no thiomersal in it. Is it so bloody difficult? Instead we get self-righteous doctors who assume that anybody that has this concern must be some kind of an idiot. Is it any wonder people start avoiding these jackasses and not vaccinating their kids? Fix the attitude, and vaccinations will increase.

And guess what? The removal hasn't done anything to autism rates or anything else.

That's irrelevant. The issue is that doctors ignore the concerns of the patient and want to be treated as infallible. If the patient does not want thimerosal, he should have the option not to get it. The doctors have no bloody right to force it upon him.

And, no, I don't care what your objections are - there are nasal spray versions of all the shots

You should care what the objections are. The objections are not to the vaccine itself but to thiomersal used in them as a preservative. It is entirely possible to provide the vaccine without thiomersal (in Europe that's already standard practice) and if you listened to the objections, you'd do so and get more people vaccinated. The only blame here is on your insistence that thiomersal is safe, which is not your decision in the first place. Each patient has a right to decide what to put in his body, and if he does not want to put a mercury-based compound in there, what right have you to force him?

Maybe it is time to stop bashing people for choosing insecure passwords, and try to fix the systemic problems?

Good idea! For example:

• The X server does not allow any method of secure password entry. Some people actually still believe that grabbing the keyboard prevents keyloggers from reading their password. They should lookup the totally insecure XQueryKeymap call.
• The X server allows invisible windows to take screenshots of your desktop at any time.
• The SECURITY extension isn't secure because it does not protect against the most common threat - spyware running with user's privileges.
• Linux kernel allows any user process to view the memory of any other user process by attaching to it as a debugger. There is no way of disabling this functionality except by manually patching the kernel.
• LD_PRELOAD. Enough said.
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• And these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head

There are some newly unemployed hackers in Elbonia, made deaf and blind by viewing Wally's browsing history. Be a good sport and hire a few of them to break into your website. They are cheap and, being deaf and blind, would not be able to actually see anything useful for identity theft, but will sure be able to get your boss to see the light.