Some witnesses for the U.S. Justice Department are expected to testify in Vaccine Court this week that there's no such thing as an autism epidemic. They will say that autism is genetic in origin, and that its rate is generally static: about 1-in-150 children. A genetic disorder, of course, has no external "cause," and nothing in the environment -- least of all mercury in vaccines -- could be driving autism numbers upward.
Better diagnosis and wider reporting, they say, are really...
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