This has been a scare story in the UK for much of the past decade -
I'm sorry to see it's crossing the Atlantic.
The whole sorry saga has been covered brilliantly by Ben Goldacre -
who writes a weekly column in "The Guardian", called "Bad Science"
deconstructing poor media coverage of science. He's just published
a book of the same title - which manages to be both entertaining,
terrifying and depressing at the same time. It includes a
remarkably painless introduction to how proper medical trials
should be carried out - once you've finished flaming any MMR=Autism
types you could do worse than give them this to put the fire
out!
(I am in no way related to Dr Goldacre - this may seem like a
shameless plug but it's just an enthusiastic recommendation).
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