Wakefield, distortion and the Sunday Times
The journalist Brian Deer has done as much as anyone to investigate the background to what Ben Goldacre describes as the MMR Hoax. In the course of his...


Its always interesting to read about new quality science and two new genetic oriented studies in Nature give us just that - quality science. The first ...
Some good news. Mary Ann Roser reports on the investigations by major health insurers that are creating funding difficulties for autism clinics which specialised in ...
By now, most readers of LB/RB have learned about the critical injury of an Italian 4 year-old (Francesco Martinizi), and the death of his grandmother, ...
Foxnews.com carries a story about Hero's star Jack Coleman discussing autism and vaccines. ...in his belief the "autism/vaccine" link was unwarranted. "My sister is a pediatrician and ...
May 12th saw the first 'science and sandwiches' day. Featuring Dr. Ami Klin of Yale who recently published in Nature, the day was session was ...
It was only a matter of time before the big papers caught on to some of the quack treatments being pedalled by certain (in)famous autism ...
As is accepted by most rational people, autism is a largely genetic difference, albeit with a likely environmental component. Over the last 10 years or ...
You know how it is when you read a story filled with red flags. A lot of them are obvious and hit you right ...

The journalist Brian Deer has done as much as anyone to investigate the background to what Ben Goldacre describes as the MMR Hoax. In the course of his...
The politics of autism are enmeshed in the debate about vaccine safety over the past ten years, and will take years to be disentangled. In the UK things might be changing, but in the US high profile celebrities have given a late push to fears that by now should be consigned to history. The ...
Interesting new study in the upcoming issue of Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders which examines the historical emergence of the classification of autism alongside the emergence...
There have been many push-backs to Jenny McCarthy and her views on autism. There has been a lot of blogging, including right here on LeftBrainRightBrain. There is a website StopJenny. There is a Jenny...



