Study Counters Autism-Vaccination Link

American Voices

January 10, 2008 | ISSUE 44•02

A new study found no evidence to support the long-speculated causality between infant vaccination and autism. What do you think?

I am unmoved by these findings. The amount of scientific evidence I've made up in my mind is too significant to refute.

Penelope Budisch
Concierge
After my baby didn't babble or gesture after 12 months, I hoped the cause was autism. I've since learned he's dead.

Joe Luttig
Window Washer
That narrows it down to being the parents' fault.

Carl Black
Systems Analyst

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.