I was on C-SPAN the other day and got assailed by a poor woman who maintains that vaccines cause autism. I disagreed, and have been getting a steady diet of e-mails about this. Does anyone know—is there an organized group of parents of children with autism, and where does the paranoia about the federal government and vaccines come from? I sympathize with these parents, but it seems someone is playing on their grief and fear in a very unhealthy way…