ABC World News Tonight (includes interview with ASF Board Member Dr. Paul Offit) USA Today New York Times National Public Radio Reuters LA Times CBS Evening News (includes interview with ASF President Alison Singer) View scientific studies regarding autism and vaccines here Read a summary of the King case here (from Kathleen Seidel at Neurodiversity.com)
Archive for March, 2010
Media Roundup: Vaccine Court Thimerosal Rulings
Posted in autism, autism research, vaccines, tagged Alison Singer, autism, Autism and Vaccines, Autism Science Foundation, Paul Offit, thimerosal, vaccine court on March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Vaccine Court Denies All Three “Thimerosal Causes Autism” Test Cases
Posted in autism, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, Treatment, vaccines, tagged Alison Singer, Autism and Vaccines, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment, autism vaccines on March 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
By Alison Singer This afternoon, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (i.e. Vaccine Court) issued its decision on whether thimerosal-containing vaccines can cause autism. The decision, handed down by three Special Masters, was a resounding “NO!”. From King: “This case is not a close case. The overall weight of the evidence is overwhelmingly contrary to [...]
AOL Health: Autism Experts Offit and Dawson on Causes, Cures and Controversies
Posted in autism, Treatment, vaccines, tagged autism, Autism and Vaccines, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, Autism Speaks, autism treatment on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By Justine van der Leun The subject of autism is one that often ignites a fiery debate, namely because so much remains unknown about the illness. Doctors, parents, caregivers and even people living with autism are sharply divided on everything from the causes to the possibility of a cure to the correct course of [...]
Rebooting Brain Science at the Allen Institute
Posted in autism, autism research, tagged autism, autism research, autism science on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
By Ken Reibel Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made his fortune helping to create the operating system used on most of the world’s personal computers. But these days his interest lies in a far more complex operating system: the 20,000 or so genes that create the self-aware tangle of neurons we call the human brain. The [...]





