In The Politics of Autism, I discuss the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee and research priorities.
RFK Jr. has stacked it with his own type of people.
Allison Parshall at Scientific American:
The government’s advisory board on autism research has cancelled a public meeting scheduled for March 19. This would have been the first public meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), a group that guides federally funded autism research, since health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., entirely overhauled the group’s membership in January. He appointed 21 new members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics.
The news of the cancellation broke on March 7, the same week that a group of autism experts formed an independent group to counter misinformation. This outside group, which calls itself the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee (I-ACC), scheduled a meeting on the same day as the federal IACC meeting. The rival group includes several former members of the federal advisory board.
