The Gary Null Show - 03/30/12

Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter who is a former senior editor for United Press International. A graduate of Yale University, he was also a founding staff member of USA Today where he had severed as its assistant national editor.  Dan publishes columns on health and medicine regularly in the Washington Times and is currently the editor of the Age of Autism website, which provides daily updates on the autism epidemic. The Columbia Journalism Review has called the site’s columns “some of the most enterprising contributions to the autism debate”.  His work has led to the introduction of a 2006 House Bill by Rep. Carolyn Maloney calling for scientific studies into the vaccine mercury-autism relationship. Dan, along with his colleague Mark Blaxill, is the of “The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine and a Man-Made Epidemic” – the most thorough book to date tracing the history of the autism-vaccine debate.