To the Editor:
This is in response to a letter titled “Autism Acceptance?” (4/27) by Neal Roberts. As a practicing pediatrician, I take exception to the implication of Mr. Roberts’ thesis: That a rising number of cases of autism from the 1980s until the present which coincidentally corresponds to the period during which more vaccines have been given to children means there must be causation. In experimental science, this is referred to as “true, true and unrelated.”
Most everyone has moved beyond the blaming of vaccines for the increase in autism. Why?
May 12, 2022
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