Op-ed: Focus on environmental causes of autism
March 13th, 2009Jon Poling, a neurology professor whose daughter has autism, writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that autism research should be refocused to explore environmental triggers.
An excerpt:
We should be investing our research dollars into discovering environmental factors that we can change, not more poorly targeted genetic studies that offer no hope of early intervention. Pesticides, mercury, aluminum, several drugs, dietary factors, infectious agents and yes — vaccines — are all in the research agenda.
Poling’s daughter Hannah was a successful petitioner in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Earlier posts here and here.
See also:
Ga. Senate tables autism bill – WTVM 9 [Columbus, GA]/Associated Press

