How many years has it been….
October 10, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Jim noted to me last night that the stock market is now pretty much back to where it was around the time Charlie was born.
Having spent the past ten days writing about vaccines and autism for the Science Blogs Book Club, it’s occurred to me that the whole vaccine-autism issue has been part of, and even dominated, public discussion about autism for most of Charlie’s life. It was in 1998 that Dr. Andrew Wakefield announced that he had found the cause of autism—-the MMR vaccine—and launched far more than a thousand discussions, diatribes, and disputed claims.
10 years, 11 years and counting of a good life with our boy.
Jim noted to me last night that the stock market is now pretty much back to where it was around the time Charlie was born.
[Rueful smile] So’s our retirement fund.
Knowing the history now it has somewhat permeated our family’s conscious for the past few years–but before that–nope. Honestly, I think we were happier for that ignorance. YMMV.
(11 years and counting too.)
Unfortunately, the myth will no doubt continue well into M and C’s adulthood. Sigh.