[rubbertramp]

When a family (and more families this is happening to) gets a diagnosis of Autism, they do a lot of soul searching. Eventually, the parents think that it has some genetic cause since every other factor is ruled out. (Genetic tests are expensive and most doctors discourage them out of cost saving).

It doesn't make sense that the cause is genetic since the parents are usually very healthy and have gotten to the stage of adulthood and reproduction. Plus, there is the rapid increase in the occurrence of this cognitive disease.

If this were happening to the frog population, some think tank would be studying it. Instead, this is being covered up big-time.

[Al B.]

I haven't closely studied this issue, but when a guy like Wakefield publishes a study, then gets ferociously attacked  and loses his job...as far as I'm concerned makes it worth looking into.

As the article on the other thread on this subject talked about, the CDC VSD database could yield valuable info on this.  The gov't needs to make this data available to independent researchers. I hope Dan Burton follows up on this.

Last time someone peeked into a proprietary gov't medical database (FDA clinical trial data on antidepressants), we found out that antidepressants were no better than placebo for efficacy and are basically a scam.