1.0 link 46488 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-allen/autism-mercury-and-the-an_b_46488.html The Institute of Medicine held a workshop this past week to examine research into the "environmental" causes of autism. It was a time for discussion among scientists pursuing possible links, and a chance for some of the autism "advocacy" community to press their research priorities on government and academic scientists. No less a bigwig than Alan Leshner, president of the AAAS and editor of Science, presided over the meeting, also attended by the directors of two of the National Institutes...

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