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Looks like biomedical treatments for autism are about to get a huge spotlight on NBC this weekend. Matt Lauer is dedicating the full hour of Dateline NBC this Sunday night to an in-depth examination of Dr. Wakefield, the rest of the medical team at Thoughtful House, vaccine safety, and biomedical treatments in general. This will include interviews with families that have been treated at Thoughtful House.
No one knows for sure how objective the final coverage is going to be, but the Thoughtful House folks said in the mailing list announcement that they feel they were treated fairly in interviews and they're hopeful it will be a favorable story. (Initially, they declined to participate in the story at all, but Matt Lauer and his producer Ami personally convinced them it would be an objective piece.)
Anyway, the summation of all show times is: there will be a 10-minute segment on the Today Show this Friday morning featuring a portion of the interview with Dr. Wakefield, then a longer segment on Nightly News Weekend either Saturday or Sunday (they're not sure yet which schedule the piece will be fit into.) Then the grand culmination of coverage will be a full hour on Dateline NBC, Sunday Aug. 30th at 7:00 PM EST.
As you can imagine, my PVR is set to record all of the above.
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