This morning was greeted with a cheery tweet from FoxNews science writer Jessica Doyle:

Her FoxNews Article discusses using umbilical cord blood stem cells to ‘cure’ autism.
Reactions to this article were mixed. Even The Center for Autism & Related Disorders (CARD) asked their followers whether the statement was too bold. Let’s take a look at some of them:


Despite the hope of a “cure”, here are some things Journalists should consider before writing their next autism story. Moreover, us parents should look for these items in the next big autism story:
Top 10 Questions provided by ASATonline.org Winter 2011 Edition of their newsletter, Science in Autism Treatment. Subscribe hereWhere do you stand? Is there promise here?



