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Science 10 July 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5937, p. 135
DOI: 10.1126/science.325_135a
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Resignations Highlight Disagreement On Vaccines in Autism Group

Erik Stokstad

A prominent member of the science advisory board for Autism Speaks, the largest private funder of autism research, resigned last week citing his disagreement with efforts to study vaccines as a possible cause of autism. Eric London, a psychiatrist and chief science advisor for the New York State Autism Consortium, says that funding such research, in addition to being wasteful, unduly heightens parents' concerns about the safety of immunization. London's departure is a sign of growing frustration in the research community, says Alison Singer, a former high-ranking leader of Autism Speaks who resigned from the group in January.

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