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• In Praise of Jenny McCarthy

  Published: September 21, 2007, 6:10 am

  Tags: Mmr, Jenny Mccarthy, Autism Disorder, Oprah Winfrey, Mmr Vaccine, Jim Carrey

  McCarthy's views on the MMR vaccine and autism. Nor do I believe that she any better able to assess the evidence or the scientific literature on the subject than any other parent of an autistic child. But she does have the gift of celebrity status, the power to command media attention and disseminate her views. And it is harder to get

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• Autism Reality from Professor Simon Baron-Cohen

  Published: December 15, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Treehouse, Simon Baron Cohen, Michelle Dawson, Laurent Mottron, Autism Disorders, Autism Awareness, Applied Behavior Analysis, Mmr Vaccine

  that blame autism on the MMR vaccine or bad parenting or those that attribute autism entirely to genetic causes:Studies of twins have established that it is not 100 per cent genetic, since even among identical twins, when one has autism, the likelihood of both twins having autism is only about 60 per cent. This means there must also be an

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