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But she can't be ignored. If the debate about vaccine safety is settled - vaccines don't cause autism; they don't injure children; they are the pillar of modern public health - then why are so many parents reconsidering vaccinating their children? The answer has to do with our era...
In 2005, McCarthy's son Evan, then 2, began having seizures so severe he required repeated emergency hospitalization. McCarthy had noticed that Evan had some developmental delays, compared with his peers in a playgroup they attended, and he exhibited some atypical behaviors: arm flapping, repetitive actions and fixation on strange...
McCarthy's conviction stems from her having "recovered" her own son from autism. "Evan couldn't talk - now he talks. Evan couldn't make eye contact - now he makes eye contact. Evan was antisocial - now he makes friends," she explains. "It was amazing to watch, over the course of doing...
Of course, McCarthy is not a doctor. She really has only the one prescription: hope. And then parents should try every treatment out there until they find one that works. She is careful to avoid the word cure, always using recovery. "I look at autism like a bus accident, and...
For all her bravado, McCarthy prefers to cast herself as a voice of moderation. She claims her goal is to move the debate toward what she sees as the middle, where more research dollars are poured into alternative treatments and the search for an environmental cause. (A great deal of...