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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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Are Childhood Vaccines Safe? - 6/18/08

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Dr. Paul A. Offit
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Offit discussed increasing concerns about vaccine safety, which has led to greater numbers of parents choosing not to vaccinate their children. As a consequence, whooping cough and measles outbreaks have occurred among pockets of unimmunized children in many states. However, most of the current fears of vaccines are ill-founded. Perhaps the most visible recent example is the now disproved notion that vaccines cause autism. This talk will focus on reasons for the chasm between the science that exonerates vaccines as a cause of autism and other chronic disorders and the public's understanding of that science.