mercury mom
n.— «But the network, in its haste to dismiss the thimerosal theory as the dangerous lunacy of mercury moms and trial lawyers, may one day live to regret its unyielding certainty, in a Dewey-Defeats-Truman sort of way.» —“Mercury, Autism and the Coming Storm” by David Kirby Huffington Post June 25, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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