suggested evidence of a link between thimerosal and autism. The majority of scientific consensus agrees with vast population studies that have shown there to be no link between vaccines, autism, and thimerosal. The original paper by Andrew Wakefield that started a media firestorm and led to fears of vaccination amongst parents has been discredited and research by journalist Brian Deer showed the data used in the paper to be fraudulent. British Medical Journal review In May 2005, Evidence of Harm was reviewed negatively in the British Medical Journal. The reviewer described Kirby's book as "woefully one-sided", and wrote: "In his determination to provide an account that is sympathetic to the parents, Kirby enters into the grip of the same delusion and ends up in the same angry and paranoid universe into which campaigners have descended, alleging phone taps and other forms of surveillance as they struggle against sinister conspiracies between health authorities and drug companies. Animal Factory In 2010, Kirby authored Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. The book exposes the business interests, environmental effects and terrible conditions of factory farms. It was positively reviewed by the National Public Radio who concluded that "the growth of factory farming in America obviously brings up issues of animal welfare, labor and nutrition, but Kirby's focus in Animal Factory is purely how the farms are changing, perhaps irrevocably, the environments and the long-term health of the people who live near them. There's no political pleading or ideological agitprop in this book; it's remarkably fair-minded, both sober and sobering." Selected publications Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy (2005) Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment (2010) Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity (2012) When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - And How to Take Them Back (2019) References External links David Kirby - Author website for When They Come for You and other books HuffingtonPost.com - David Kirby's blog at The Huffington Post Kirby on The Looming Threat of Industrial Farms on Humans and the Environment - video report by Democracy Now! The Problem with Factory Farms - Interview with David Kirby American animal welfare scholars American investigative journalists American medical journalists