In the aftermath of the Leominster scandal, other “autism clusters” started popping up all over the country—notably one in Brick Township, New Jersey, where sixty-three million gallons of septic waste had been dumped into a landfill between 1969 and 1979. No one was tracking these events more closely than Bernard Rimland, who started covering the Leominster story in his newsletter two years before the 20/20 broadcasts.
