Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars
Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents don’t believe them. Can scientists bridge the gap between evidence and doubt? This week PLoS Biology investigates why the debunked vaccine-autism theory won’t go away. Liza Gross talks to medical anthropologists, science historians, vaccine experts, social scientists and pediatricians to explore the factors keeping the dangerous notion alive – and its proponents so vitriolic:
A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars. 2009 PLoS Biol 7(5): e1000114
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Tags: autism, Biology, Health, Medicine, Microbiology, MMR, Science, Vaccines, Virology, virus
