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velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2007-02-24 05:16 pm
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Great news from the world of medicine

Genetic link to autism

I wonder if this will have any impact on the people who believe vaccines caused their child's autism?

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I could have sworn it was a British publication that started it all, though the one you quote probably did something very similar. It seems to me the original article was published in the Lancet, and later retracted by almost all of the authors.

[identity profile] neosis.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You might be right, I read an aticle which laid the blame squarely on them.

Oh, and here's an interesting and well thought out article on Vaccines and Autism:
http://www.theness.com/articles.asp?id=74 (http://www.theness.com/articles.asp?id=74)