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A New Blog In Town

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Its not often I feel compelled to write a whole entry just for the creation of a new blog but every so often one pops up by an author that you know is going to have an impact. I’ve ‘known’ Hurricane (its up to you to tell you his real name if he so desires) [...]

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Autism, Respect and the Mercury Militia

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

What was a disagreement about the causes of autism is widening into a war. This isn’t a war between parents and scientists. Its a war between one set of parents and a group comprised of other parents, scientists and autistics themselves. Its a war between flexibility and acceptance on one side and a rigid determination [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Mercury, Thimerosal | 115 Comments »

Splitting AJAX Returned Data

Friday, October 21st, 2005

I’m working on a new product site for the company I work for at the moment and am trying to utilise as much sensible AJAX as possible in order to enhance the usability of the pages without destroying the IA or accessibility.

One of the intriguing challenges I came across today was using innerHTML in a [...]

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Autism: A Novel Form Of Mercury Poisoning

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Many in the Neurodiversity and Biomed communities are aware of this paper. It forms one of the lynchpins of the Biomed communities belief system – that autism and mercury poisoning are the same.

I’ve long been confused by this belief. Its plainly wrong and I’m amazed so many seemingly intelligent people believe it. I’ve posted about [...]

Posted in Mercury, Thimerosal | 53 Comments »