
Call me a glutton for punishment, but despite the hornet's nest that I wrote myself into a couple of weeks ago, I've a second post on autism for this Science Tuesday. The controversy over the MMR vaccine and the alleged links to autism and the passions that it evokes inspired me to keep on reading the scientific literature on autism research. Coincidentally, a major article was published in this week's Science addressing the hanging question asked by a number of rightly concerned parents is, "If the MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism then what does?" [...]