Here.
This part is particularly interesting:
Meanwhile, the original paper’s publisher — The Lancet — complained in 2004 that the lead author had concealed a conflict of interest. Ten of his co-authors retracted the paper’s implication that the vaccine might be linked to autism. Three of the authors are now defending themselves before a fitness-to-practice panel in London on charges related to their autism research.
And yet the superstition will live on for decades.
September 9, 2008 at 4:56 pm
My current pet theory: This is where peak-oil and autism converge. I suspect there’s something uniquely toxic about our current environment, pollution, food-supply, and all the oil byproducts that surround us (in the developed West at least) and that as the oil starts to dry up and a switch to some other fuel starts to happen, we’ll see autism die down once again. And that the mechanism or connection or whatever will never be known for sure.
September 9, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Um, well, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, any more than autism is caused by watching television. But, hey, everyone’s entitled to their private little theories, just as long as they don’t cause mass hysteria.