A Doctor on Junk Science and Autism |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 4:06 pm |
| Tags: junk science, vaccines, science, treatment, asd, aspergers, autism, children, education, family, health, junk science, mercury, myth, mythology, pdd nos, psychiatry, science, vacciens |
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Rahul K. Parikh is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a pediatrician in Walnut Creek, California. Back in June, his op-ed, The Truth About Autism: Amid cries of an epidemic and parental fears that childhood vaccines may instead be poisoning their kids, doctors try to put a rapid increase in diagnoses of the learning disability in perspective appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and made the case that a link between vaccines and autism has been soundly disproved, yet parents seek out what might be referred to as “their own truth,” in doing their own research and in seeking out treatments other than those offered by mainstream medicine. Another op-ed by Dr. Parikh appears today in New America Media, which again argues that parents have been “duped by junk science” into believing that mercury or vaccines causes autism, and in experimental treatments such as chelation. Dr. Parikh defines “junk science” as “science that is [ Full article ] |
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