One Utah

I’ve touched on this topic before. Offit, literally, wrote the book on the subject. What he has to say:

There is no known cause or cure for autism [snip]

The reason that I wrote the book is because of what happened after the studies exonerating vaccines had been performed and published. The media, using the journalistic mantra of balance, continued to cover the story as if it were a controversy. But the controversy is between those who believe in science as a way to answer scientific questions and those who don’t. The “vaccine-autism controversy” is really an anti-science story. [snip]
The continued portrayal by the press that vaccines might cause autism has done a lot of harm.

Read the rest of the reviews at Scienblogs. My favorite on the topic is Orac.

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