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Citation for David Kirby, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, 2003-04 Presented by Thomas K. Wetherell President, The Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida May 2, 2003 David Kirby: Extraordinary Poet, Prolific Scholar, Celebrated Teacher, and Respected Citizen of Your University and Professional Communities. You came to the Florida State University in 1969 with your Ph.D. fresh from Johns Hopkins University at the tender age of twenty-four. A boy wonder, you have fully realized your promise during thirty-four years at our institution. You have published an amazing twenty-two books, averaging one every year-and-a-half, plus hundreds of articles, reviews, and individual poems. Representing nearly every genre, your books include critical studies of nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, meditations on modern culture, children’s stories, pedagogical works, and a series of ever stronger volumes of poetry. Your poems have evolved into complex, commodious, overlap
They have collaborated on articles about the safety of vaccines and how they might pertain to autism. Here’s one: ANOTHER AUTISM CASE WINS IN VACCINE COURT By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On February 12, the federal “Vaccine Court” in Washington issued a sweeping ruling in three highly touted “test cases” against families who claimed that their childrens’ autism had been caused by vaccines. The Special Masters in those three cases found that Petitioners failed to establish causation between MMR vaccines, the mercury-laced vaccine preservative thimerosal, and autism (the court decision, which is under appeal, deferred any finding on a thimerosal-only theory of causation). The rulings could have a significant precedential impact on some 5,000 families who opted to bring their cases in the Omnibus Autism Proceedings (OAP) hoping that the vaccine court would officially hold that the MMR vaccine or thimerosal had caused autism in their children. The New York Times joined the government Health Age
