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Monthly Archive February, 2009

Scientific Progress

By Jeffry Fawcett, February 3, 2009 in the Editorials blog

Last week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Kirby published an article about autism on the Huffington Post. They were writing about how remnants of the Bush administration sabotaged funding for research on the relationship between vaccinations and autism. The actions of these members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee blocked the allocation of funds specifically designated for such research by the Combating Autism Act of 2006. [Read more…]