I can at least have some respect for the Law & Order approach because they always start with the "ripped from the headlines" aspect and then totally change the story. For example, they recently did the story of John White, the African American father up in Long Island who shot a teen who was part of a group coming after his son with an aluminum baseball bat. But in the L&O version, they managed to make the dead kid's mother a bit of a psycho and condemned both parents.

In this case, the producers of Eli Stone aren't even bothering to claim that the autism-vaccine connection is true, but are instead falling back on the excuse that it's just a piece of entertainment. And the disclaimer appears even lamer, not refuting the charge and instead directing you to a website, so you can do a half-hour's worth of research and figure out for yourself that it's not true.

To put the cherry on top, the producers say that they'd be upset if any parent didn't vaccinate their child just because, you know, they saw some stupid TV show in which a very nice lawyer argued in court and won his case based on the charge that vaccines cause autism. Don't people realize we make this stuff up? Research, what's that?