Vaccines took center stage at the federal autism advisory committee meeting Thursday, as committee members explicitly pointed to vaccines as a potential cause of autism, even though the link has been routinely debunked.
“We don’t want to close the door for any potential trigger, and that would include things like glutamate or aspirin, or a vaccination,” said Laura Cellini, the founder and CEO of Elucidate ASD, a nonprofit pushing for more medical treatments of autism. “We are quite open to investigating anything and everything. This plan closes no door.”
