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Assignment desk: Vaccine case's real meaning

By Mark Obbie

Why does it take a scientist's op-ed piece in the Times to put a much clearer -- or at least nuanced and different -- perspective on a recent court case that alarmed many parents? I haven't paid close enough attention to the fallout from an announcement earlier in March that the government supposedly admitted that vaccines could cause autism. Perhaps reporters have thoroughly chewed through that alarming and intriguing tidbit offered by parents who were critics of the government and of vaccines. But I haven't seen prominently published reports to that effect. Should medical and legal reporters take their cue from this op-ed to question whether this case has been misunderstood?

Full post as published by Lawbeat on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).