Mainstream Indian newspaper recommends book on vaccine dangers.

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Do vaccines cause autism?

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060109/asp/knowhow/story_5688978.asp

Evidence of Harm

David Kirby

St Martin's Press; $26.95 Four years ago David Kirby, a science

contributor to the New York Times, spotted a breaking story when he began

researching a possible link between mercury used in a vaccine preservative and

autism, a disorder that affects the development of social and communication

skills. The result unfolds as this book.

For the past eight years Kirby interviewed dozens of parents to find out how

their children had developed autism. He pored over medical journals, clinical

studies and government documents. The families he met and the things he learned

shook him.

Reported autism cases among American children have risen to one in 166 today,

from one in 10,000 in 1987, according to him. He doesn’t profess to know whether

mercury causes autism. What he does insist is that nobody can say for certain

that the two are not linked.

Kirby follows the tug-of-war between government health agencies and the

parents and their supporters. He does an admirable job of clarifying most of the

scientific findings, but doesn’t offer his own verdict on the debate.

A gripping investigation and an extremely well-written book.