Vaccines, again and Autism Speaks

Two notes for today: Tonight, Frontline, the television investigative news show, is presenting "The Vaccine War"...vaccine opponents bemoan the fact that there are not enough scientists on the anti-vax side ( are there really ANY scientists who are anti-vaccinations?), and that the program relies mostly on mainstream research. I really want to watch this show. And Age of Autism, an anti-vax website, is asking viewers to tweet and blog during the show's airing.

And another blog article entitled,

"Why the Autism Speaks' Scientific Advisory Committee Needs to Resign" argues that the scientific advisory board of Autism Speaks is redundant, dated, and only approves grants from researchers they agree with. I know I've read that the author, Katie Wright, is on non-speaking terms with her parents, the Wrights, who run Autism Speaks....and Katie is the mom of a child with autism.

Personally, I am really tired of trying to keep track of who's on whose side....although to some extent I agree with Katie that more research on treatments is needed. Autism is in some cases genetic, but not 90% of the cases. I also agree that biomedical treatments need to be researched.

So can we stop the arguing and get on with treating these children who are soon to become adults?