Perhaps true. But even the NYT can occasionally get within a mile or two of the truth. Their science folks are - almost - competent. However one must admit that the stats don’t support a connection between the immunizations and autism. (Neither do stats support global warming, but the NYT has stats they use and stats they don’t.)
Forgot to mention that the reason that the congress (in a rare example of actual thought) had to do something about lawsuits was to make crook lawyers like John Edwards less likely to practice junk science in front of a public-school educated jury.