On Jan 24, 8:09 am, The One True Zhen Jue <Andrew_King...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

ABC Drama Takes on Science and Parents
By EDWARD WYATT
LOS ANGELES -- A new legal drama making its debut this month on ABC is
stepping into a subject that is the source of heated debate among some
parents -- the relationship between autism and childhood vaccines -- and
seemingly coming down on the side that has been all but dismissed by
prominent scientific organizations.

The drama, "Eli Stone," scheduled to be broadcast at 10 p.m. on Jan.
31, centers on a lawyer who begins having visions that cause him to
question his life's work defending large corporations, including a
pharmaceutical company that makes vaccines.

The title character of "Eli Stone," adopting the message of his
visions to fight for the little guy, takes his first case: suing his
former client on behalf of the mother of an autistic child who
believes a mercury-based preservative in a vaccine caused her son's
autism.

For the last decade some parents and advocates for autistic children
have championed the theory that a mercury-based vaccine preservative
called thimerosal, developed in the late 1920s and used in many
childhood vaccines until about seven years ago, is a primary cause of
autism in young children.