Vaccines and Autism Revisited

A fascinating "Perspective" on autism,. the MMR vaccine, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is presented in today's New England Journal of Medicine (N. engl j med 358;20 may 15, 2008), which discusses the origin of the compensation program, and the failure of the program to follow a science base in its awards, opening the door to great injury to the vaccine program and setting the stage for another rush of pharmaceutical companies to flee from tthe vaccine field. If the current case in court is decided on feelings, rather than science, millions of people may die in the near future from lack of vaccines.