The following comes directly from Kanner (1965):
Questions have arisen, however, with regard to the ease with which the diagnosis was suddenly bestowed upon a relatively vast contingent of patients. Bender, who in 1942 had, as she said, “not seen very many cases in which we could make a definite diagnosis,” announced later that by 1951 [...]
Over on the Huffington Post, David Kirby has posted about The Next Big Autism Bomb. Its a very long post so take a sammich.
The gist (with apologies to Mr Kirby) of it is that there was a conference call to discuss the autism/mito issues:
On Tuesday, March 11, a conference call was held between vaccine safety [...]
A new study released by John Hopkins indicates that maternal antibodies may play a role in the aetiology of autism:
[a]...possible explanation involves the transfer of reactive antibodies from the mother through the placenta to the fetus.
To investigate the latter, the team measured the antibody-brain reaction in blood samples from 100 mothers with and 100 mothers [...]
I read with interest Dr Schuchat’s opinion piece in the AJC today.
Whilst it is gratifying to see someone of Dr Schuchat’s calibre responding to previous claims regarding vaccines in autism I would like to make a few points to Dr Schuchat and the CDC in general.
Firstly, this level of response is around eight years too [...]
