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Now welcome to the award winning best of a left podcast with clips today from healthcare

triage on the media.

This week in blackness the David Pakman show the majority report markfiori.com, the

Rachel Maddo show, activism from voices for vaccines and the Tom Harkin program.

In 1998, an article was published in the Lancer that followed the cases of 12 children

with developmental regression and gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea or stomach pain.

Nine of these children had autism and eight of the nine had parents who thought the symptoms

of their autism had developed after the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella or the

MMR vaccine was administered.

This was not a randomized controlled trial nor even a scientific study.

It was merely a description of a small group of children.

To be honest, it's difficult to imagine that this study could get published in the

Lancer today.

But based on the beliefs of the parents of those eight children, a frenzy of fear about

vaccines and autism has ensued for more than a decade.

That's the topic of this week's healthcare triage.

Let me start with some caveats.

I'm a pediatrician and a health services researcher.

I see kids with autism.

I treat kids with autism.

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