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Congressional Autism Hearings Continue
No Evidence MMR Vaccine Causes Disorder
Brian Vastag
JAMA. 2001;285:2567-2569.
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Washington—Congressman Dan Burton (R, Ind) refuses to take "no" for an answer. At his latest congressional hearing looking into possible links between autism and childhood vaccines, Burton railed against panels of assembled scientists. At one point, he slammed down a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report—which concluded there was no evidence that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) leads to autism—and shouted, red-faced, "You don't know there's no link, do you? Do you?"
Marie McCormick, MD, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and chair of the IOM committee that proffered the report, quietly replied, "I know it's not causing most of the cases of autism. The level of analysis we were able to do does not rule out rare occurrences."
Those possible rare occurrences, which even the best epidemiology is not equipped to detect, is where science becomes personal for Burton. His grandson, Christian, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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