Experts differ while children continue to suffer autism

OVER the past couple of years, we have seen medical authorities and medical correspondents reaching a not guilty verdict on the MMR causing autism.

Fri, 26 Jul, 2002 - 01:00

They justify this on the basis of scientific evidence. Maybe it’s time the public understood this term. Scientific evidence is 100% evidence. Does the public realise that, by this definition, we cannot be sure that smoking causes lung cancer?

Maybe it’s time to note that there are other types of evidence:

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