| 词条 | Dan Olmsted |
| 释义 |
Dan Olmsted was a journalist and former senior editor for United Press International (UPI), a news agency of the Unification Church company News World Communications. Olmsted wrote a series of reports linking vaccination to autism, a hypothesis which has been disproven.[1] His columns on health and medicine appeared regularly in The Washington Times and were syndicated nationally from UPI's Washington D.C. bureau. He owned and edited the Age of Autism website, a Site which he described as the "Daily Web Newspaper of the Autism Epidemic", where proponents question the safety of vaccines. Olmsted wrote an article in 2002, along with reporter Mark Benjamin, which drew links between the drug Lariam given to military personnel and mental health disorders in soldiers[2]. He co-wrote four books with Mark Blaxill, co-founder of Age of Autism. The last, Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future was released posthumously in 2017. [3] The Age of AutismFrom 2005 to July 2007, Olmsted wrote about his investigative findings concerning the apparent global epidemic of autism in a series of columns titled The Age of Autism. Though some scientific research suggests that autism is a primarily genetic disorder and that reported increases are mainly due to changes in diagnostic practices, Olmsted, claimed that the increases are due to mercury poisoning, particularly from vaccines, and that the genetics is mostly secondary.[4] Though Olmsted continued to make this claim, thimerosal, the mercury-containing preservative blamed by Olmsted, was removed from most vaccines as a precaution beginning in the late 1990s,[5] with no effect on autism diagnosis rates.[6][7][8] Congressional actionCiting Olmsted's reports, on March 30, 2006, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY) announced that she would be drafting legislation calling for scientific studies investigating thiomersal and autism, additional to the many already conducted.[9] The bill was introduced in the U. S. House of Representatives in April 2006. Maloney made the announcement at a National Press Club press conference in Washington, D.C., along with Olmsted and David Kirby.[10][11] CriticismMany scientific studies have found no credible evidence that thimerosal-containing vaccines and the MMR vaccine cause autism, and the MMR vaccine controversy has been determined at the time to be the result of an "elaborate fraud" by British researcher Andrew Wakefield.[12][13] In a critical assessment by the Columbia Journalism Review of the thimerosal controversy, Olmsted's reporting on unvaccinated populations has been characterized as "misguided" by two anonymous reporters. Both sources "believed that Olmsted has made up his mind on the question and is reporting the facts that support his conclusions".[14] DeathOlmsted died on January 23, 2017, from an overdose of prescription medication, according to his spouse Mark Milett.[15] See also{{portal|Pervasive Developmental Disorders}}
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html|title=Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism|publisher=US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|access-date=October 5, 2017}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/UPI-Investigates-Lariam-and-suicide/96011022002526/|title=UPI Investigates: Lariam and suicide|work=UPI|access-date=2017-10-05|language=en}} 3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Denial.html?id=oG7RDgAAQBAJ|title=Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future|last=Blaxill|first=Mark|last2=Olmsted|first2=Dan|date=2017-07-25|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc.|isbn=9781510716957|language=en}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2007/07/18/The-Age-of-Autism-The-last-word/UPI-57611184777255/|title=The Age of Autism: the last word|publisher=UPI|date=2007-07-18|accessdate=2007-07-23|author=Dan Olmsted|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123051021/http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2007/07/18/The-Age-of-Autism-The-last-word/UPI-57611184777255/|archivedate=23 January 2012}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimfaq.htm |date=2007-06-07 |accessdate=2008-07-22 |title= Thimerosal in vaccines: frequently asked questions (FAQs) |publisher= Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration}} 6. ^{{cite journal |journal= Clin Pharmacol Ther |year=2007 |volume=82 |issue=6 |pages=756–9 |title= Vaccines and autism: evidence does not support a causal association |author= DeStefano F |doi=10.1038/sj.clpt.6100407 |pmid=17928818}} 7. ^{{cite journal |journal= Can J Neurol Sci |year=2006 |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=341–6 |title= Immunizations and autism: a review of the literature |vauthors=Doja A, Roberts W |pmid=17168158 |doi=10.1017/s031716710000528x}} 8. ^{{cite book|author=Immunization Safety Review Committee, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine|title=Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism|publisher=The National Academies Press|location=Washington, DC|year=2004|isbn=0-309-09237-X|url=http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10997.html}} 9. ^Carolyn Maloney (US congress page) - "New, Thorough Study of Possible Mercury-Autism Link Proposed By Rep. Maloney". PDF draft of legislation {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060601193039/http://maloney.house.gov/documents/health/mercury/20060330DraftAutismBill.pdf |date=2006-06-01 }}. 10. ^UPI.com - 'UPI Autism story prompts bill' (March 30, 2006) 11. ^{{cite journal|journal=N Engl J Med|year=2007|volume=357|issue=13|pages=1278–9|title=Thimerosal and vaccines—a cautionary tale|author=Offit PA|author-link=Paul Offit|doi=10.1056/NEJMp078187|pmid=17898096|url=http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/13/1278}} 12. ^{{cite journal|journal=Can J Neurol Sci|year=2006|volume=33|issue=4|pages=341–6|title=Immunizations and autism: a review of the literature|vauthors=Doja A, Roberts W|pmid=17168158|doi=10.1017/s031716710000528x}} 13. ^{{cite journal|year=2011|pages=c7452|volume=342|title=Wakefield's article linking MMR vaccine and autism was said to be fraudulent despite other researchers airing similar views|vauthors=Godlee F, Smith J, Marcovitch H|journal=BMJ|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452.full|doi=10.1136/bmj.c7452|pmid=21209060}} 14. ^"Drug Test," Daniel Schulman, Columbia Journalism Review, 2005, from "Adventures in Autism blog(exact CJR issue unclear) 15. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/notable-deaths-in-the-washington-area/2017/02/14/b3d1a42c-f2e7-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html|title=Notable deaths in the Washington area|website=The Washington Post|date=2017-02-14|accessdate=2017-03-14}} External links
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