Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, the chairman of the department of preventive medicine at the Mount Sinai medical school, says that there may be environmental factors linked to autism, but these relate to endocrine disrupting chemicals in consumer products, not to vaccines.
“Rather than worry about a vaccine-autism connection that has been proven not to exist, parents should be banding together and writing their elected officials to insist that chemicals be properly tested for toxicity to children before they are allowed to enter the American market,” Dr. Landrigan told me. “The Europeans have passed such legislation. We should, too.”