With another round of vaccine court going on this week, the question of whether there’s a link between vaccines and autism is again getting a lot of discussion. Here’s five past posts on this blog  that suggest how this one hypothesis about the cause of autism has become entwined in debates about research, the understanding of what autism is, and much more. Much, much more.
1. The Vaccine-Autism Urban Myth (February 6, 2007)
2. Myth, Science, and a Trial: Vaccines and Autism (June 30, 2007)
3. Thoughts on Autism Research (July 2, 2007)
4. The New McCarthyism (October 28, 2007)
5. The Case of Hannah …read more