Science/Research


Vaccine Court Denies All Three “Thimerosal Causes Autism” Test Cases

By Alison Singer President, Autism Science Foundation This afternoon, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (i.e. Vaccine Court) issued its decision on whether thimerosal-containing vaccines can cause autism.  The...


Once Again, Court Rules Vaccines DO NOT Cause Autism

By Amy Pisani The U.S. Court of Federal Claims today issued a decision on the Omnibus Autism Proceeding’s second theory that vaccines which contain thimerosal (a preservative) do not...


Bittersweet News On Parental Attitudes Toward Vaccines

By Amy Pisani A new study that was released by researchers from the University of Michigan and published in the journal Pediatrics this week revealed some bittersweet news about...


Dr. Nancy Talks Vaccines on Morning Joe

Check out this video from Morning Joe which aired this morning.  Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski had Chris Mooney, author of Unscientific America, and NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman...


LA Times – The damage of the anti-vaccination movement

By Amy Pisani Journalist Michael Fumento’s opinion piece in today’s LA Times touches on the ramifications of the 1998 Wakefield study, which was retracted this week by the original...


Art Caplan: How a zealot's word led us astray on autism

By Amy Pisani I encourage everyone to check out  the msnbc.com article by Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, “How a...


Autism Science Foundation President Alison Singer on Lancet Retraction

By Amy Pisani Alison Singer, co-founder and president of the Autism Science Foundation, has written an opinion piece for CNN describing how the Wakefield study, and later the disrepute...


Motherlode: The False Prophets of Autism

[Ed. note: this just ran in the New York Times Motherlode Blog. An amazing piece on the recent decision by the GMC on Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the infamous doctor...


Doctor at Center of MMR/Autism Controversy Found Guilty of Reckless Disregard for Suffering Children in Landmark GMC Decision

By Alison Singer President, Autism Science Foundation This week, the British General Medical Council (GMC) ruled that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who first proposed a link between the MMR vaccine...


Second Dose of H1N1 Vaccine for Children Below Age Ten Should Not Be Missed

By Amy Pisani Several batches of Sanofi Pasteur’s H1N1 vaccines have been voluntarily recalled after post delivery testing of the vaccines by the manufacturer revealed that they were less...