Simon Baron-Cohen on the "1 in 58" number

Published: July 11, 2007, 7:09 pm

Found by way of Michelle Dawson's QT board. The first is a response from The Times to the scaremongering "New Health Fears" article from the Observer newspaper:Autism: the truthAs the leaked and incomplete results of a study on autism again raise fears among parents, the scientist leading the research tells our correspondent that the new reports are alarmist and wrongAnjana AhujaIf you want to stoke parental anxiety, there are few better ways than announcing a dramatic rise in the incidence of autism. That is exactly what happened at the weekend with a story that the incidence of autism was far higher than previously thought as many as one in 58 children with the MMR vaccine back in the dock as a possible culprit.The story was the result of the leak of an unpublished report put together by a team of British scientists including Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, head of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University and one of the most authoritative figures in the field.One of

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