2008-04-22 Obama Climbs On The Vaccine Research Bandwagon

2008-04-22 \David Kirby\autism vaccination theory\Barack Obama http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/obama-climbs-on-the-vacci_b_97969.html Obama Climbs On The Vaccine Research Bandwagon &ldquo;So there you have it, our next President will share the views of such radical fringe crazies as, well, me, Democrat Robert Kennedy, Jr., Republican Joe Scarborough, former NIH and Red Cross chief Bernadine Healy, and several researchers at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the Universities of California and Washington and elsewhere. .. All of us agree: Current evidence suggests the need for more reseach into whether vaccines could be a contributing factor in some cases of autism.&rdquo; This article has been roundly attacked within scientific circles. As one commenter on Pharyngula says: &ldquo;How many studies need to be done before the anti-vaccine people are satisfied? Oh yeah...they're never going to be satisfied.&rdquo; The problem is, where are these studies? They need to be online so that people outside the scientific establishment (e.g. parents of autistic kids) can read them and make up their own minds. CITOKATE.   