Pediatricians call for cancellation of ABC’s ELI STONE premiere
ABC plans to run an episode of ?Eli Stone? in which the title character successfully argues in court that a vaccine caused a child?s autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an organization of 60,000 pediatricians, is alarmed that this program could lead to a tragic decline in immunization rates. The AAP calls on ABC to cancel the episode. – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is demanding ABC cancel the opening episode of “Eli Stone” scheduled for Thursday, January 31. As reported in The New York Times, the episode features a lawyer who argues in court that a vaccine caused a child’s autism.