The Age of Autism: Nuts
Such is the title of an editorial penned by Dan Olmstead, UPI's senior editor. Despite it's snarky title, the piece is in fact a serious discussion on the possible links between childhood immunizations and a number of apparent "epidemic" events in the past generation, including autism, asthma and peanut allergies.
Like Olmstead, I feel the jury is out on all of these, but there is merit to a real discussion, not the current portrayal of anyone who raises the possibilies as fringe lunatics or misguided grieving parents.
Ironically, we have wondered for a few years now if the asthma which our eldest daughter suffers from was a result of thimerosal overdose. We never considered her peanut allergy might be linked as well.
So while UPI may be the mouthpiece of the Right on many issues, Olmstead shows once again, when it comes to thumbing his nose at BigPharma, he's his own man.