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New IOM Report on Vaccine Risks: Will It Make Any Difference?

The Institute of Medicine has released a sweeping new report on vaccine risks, noting that adverse effects are rare but exist — and knocking down, once again, the misconception that vaccines “cause” autism. But it will it make any difference in easing public fears of vaccines?

Don’t call it a witch hunt: Scientists who perpetrated autism-vaccine scare should be called out

For a field rooted in fact and reason, science sure loves witchcraft.

One of the most common responses to the decade-long effort to hold Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues accountable for creating one of the biggest public health scares in modern history – linking autism to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine – is to call the effort a “witch hunt.”

Wakefield's Wake Part 2: Passionate parents of autistic children can be tricky sources

Anyone who has written about a topic as emotional as autism knows that patients and their families can be both invaluable and unreliable.

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