Researcher studies connection between autism, vaccines

By Scott Hilyard
Monday, June 12 2006

Dr. David Ayoub, the self-taught expert on vaccines, mercury and the autism epidemic, stood in the back of the room on the second floor of First United Methodist Church in Normal, Ill., recently on the verge of a lecture.

He faced the backs of his audience. They all faced a portable tripod screen that would soon display a dizzying torrent of Power Point charts, graphs, facts and statistics for the consumption of the standing-room crowd of Illinois State University college students, instructors and people whose connection to the misery, mayhem and melancholy of autism were more personal, confounding and intense.

He began: "You might wonder that a radiologist who doesn't have a child with autism might come across as being a little bit on the fringe (on this topic)," Ayoub said, the light touch of self-deprecation, depending on a person's point of view, either cementing his credibility or undermining it. "I just want to know the truth like I'm sure you just want to know the truth."

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