Aspie Dad

via Joseph at Natural Variation - Autism Blog comes this:

There will be a debate titled “Vaccines and Autism: Is There a Connection?” between David Kirby and Arthur Allen. The debate will take place in San Diego, California on Saturday, January 13, at 10am. The address follows:

UC San Diego Price Center
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla CA 92093

Admission is free, provided you register with TACA before January 10. (Be prepared to give out a mailing address). Or you can pay $10 on-site.

The main sponsors of the debate are apparently Generation Rescue, SafeMinds, TACA and the Autism Research Institute. As you can imagine they will surely do their best to come up with an audience hostile to Mr. Allen. If you know someone who lives around the San Diego area, who is a skeptic of the vaccine link or an autistic adult or a parent who doesn’t buy into the vaccine hoopla, be sure to let them know about the debate. If you have a blog, you can help by reposting the announcement. You can also email anyone else who might be interested.

But it is hard to not agree with Anne who comments:

A debate on a science topic between two journalists? Isn’t this something of a non-event?

Ummmm…, yeah. But I’m guessing that everyone’s books will be for sale at the event.

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