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Autism Vox

March 31st, 2008

Paul Offit on the case of Hannah Poling

Paul A. Offit, chief of the infectious diseases division of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, writes this about the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the case of Hannah Poling in an op-ed in today’s New York Times:
Now, petitioners need merely propose a biologically plausible mechanism by which a vaccine might cause harm — even […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 10 comments

March 27th, 2008

Legal Standards, Science, and the Cause of Autism

In determining what causes autism, you would think that scientific evidence would have the final say. Just in the past year, there has been more and more evidence refuting a link between thimerosal and rising autism rates, and more and more studies pointing to a complex web of genetic factors in autism. And yet, again […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 24 comments

March 11th, 2008

Vaccine Fixation But Where’s the Education

Looks like everyone has to get in their say about the case of Hannah Poling and the government’s recent concession that her underlying mitochondrial disorder was aggravated by receiving nine vaccines and led to “symptoms like autism,” as today’s New York Times puts it in an editorial entitled A Puzzling Autism Case. The NY Times […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 33 comments