Something Has Happened

Published: July 15, 2007, 8:28 pm

Tags: easter seals, cedillo, fda, verstraeten, autism society of america, the turning tide, doj, thimerosal, johnson and johnson, autism speaks, legislation, nih, epa, vsd, cdc, evidence of harm, studies

Two weeks ago I took a break from blogging to spend time with family who came to visit. Last week was a work catch up week, and I have only begun to catch up with all that has happened in the autism world while I was gone.As I have been reading, I am seeing things that are surprising me. It is freaking me out a little.Something has changed around the Cedillo Trial.I have been following autism news for three years and I have never seen the kind of stories/events that are surfacing.Dave Weldon and Carolyn Maloney have introduced bipartisan legislation, the Mercury Free Vaccines Act of 2007. Autism Speaks has uncharacteristically decided to back it and oppose AB 16 in Sacramento that would mandate that the State of California automatically adopt any vaccine that the CDC puts on the schedule (and pushed the HPV vaccine). They have never taken a stance on vaccines before. AS is also listing mercury research that was funded by CAN before the merger on their web site, but someone who

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