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CRN: The latest on the autism epidemic with David Kirby

By Coy Barefoot

New York Times Reporter David Kirby’s book Evidence of Harm: Mercury and Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic - A Medical Controversy won the 2005 Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Award. Now in paperback, Kirby says his work has helped change the course of the debate over whether thimerosal is a factor in the growing number of children diagnosed with autism.

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ashes anderson says:

July 26th, 2007 at 3:41 am

Did Kirby not follow the evidence of no harm as presented in the Cedillo case? When was the last time Kirby had an article in the NYT? I think one of their lawyers told him never to represent himself as a reporter for the NYT.

David, Let’s say that 75% of autism is purely genetic, either running in the family or caused by a new mutation or mutations. Let’s just say that you are an antivaxer like your friend “truthseeker.”

Can Kirby explain the difference of rate of autism in the California DDS system. There are 4 Regional Centers that have 30 or 33% percent of their case loads as clients with autism, and in the rest of California the percentages are much lower, even a third lower in two Regional Centers. Were the kids in these RCs given three times as many vaccines as the kids in the low autism RCs.

There is no evidence of a link between autism and vaccines, not even in Kirby’s “Gold Standard” database, the California DDS.

mike stanton says:

July 26th, 2007 at 4:24 am

If Kirby is such a great investigative journalist perhaps he would like to investigate why the story in The Observer that alleged that Simon Baron-Cohen had found autism in 1 in 58 British children has been completely withdrawn from the Observer’s website.
Has he read the rebuttals of the Observer’s story by Simon Baron-Cohen and fellow researcher Fiona Scott or the debunking of the whole story in a dozen blogs, including Guardian reporter, Dr Ben Goldacre and Fiona Fox, director of the Science Media centre and myself?
The 1 in 58 figure was blown away wihin hours of publication. Are the rest of Kirby’s claims and assertions any more reliable?

Napolean Blownapart says:

July 26th, 2007 at 9:42 am

Of course why not the Observer HAD TO erase the TRUTTH!!! It’s a England paper and the QUEEN OF ENGLAND is RIGHT NEXT DORE! Don’t you people READD! Vaccines are used to control the poeple of the world our PLANET EARTH!!! Its like Terry Shiavoe said before she was exedtured: LET ME LIVE! Vacines kill!!!

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