Commentary
Autism, once so rare that it afflicted just one person in 10,000, now afflicts one child in 30, according to a new study in JAMA Pediatrics. In boys, who are especially susceptible to autism, the rate is one in 22, or almost 5 percent.
Viewpoints
Opinion
Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. Trust Us
The public health establishment fears what it might find if it studied whether vaccines cause autism
A registered nurse draws a dose of mumps-measles-rubella, or MMR vaccine, in Wichita, Kansas, on April 24, 2006. Mike Hutmacher/The Wichita Eagle/AP photo
Patricia Adams is an economist and president of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at [email protected]
