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Archive for November, 2005

A Means To An End

Monday, November 28th, 2005

And so, the latest fire-storm in the autism blogosphere continues to rage. If you’re unaware of the story I’ll offer a brief recap (as unbiased as I can make it) before trying to offer up some commentary.

Briefly, JB Handley of Generation Rescue bought the domains supportvaccination.com, oracknows.com and autismdiva.com. Why? I don’t really know. On [...]

Rashid Buttar Recommending IV-EDTA Based ‘Therapy’

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Orac has a long and incredibly worrying post up that reveals that Rashid Buttar, chelationist supreme, has taken a very worrying step down the road to quackery.

A few months ago, a 5 year old autistic boy died undergoing chelation therapy. Defenders of chelation at the time pointed out that IV EDTA was not a recognised [...]

Web Professionals: Who We Are Or What We do?

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

The big topic doing the rounds at the moment is the topic of professionalism for web designers/developers. The gist of the argument centers around a remark made by Andy, in an interview on Accessifywho said:

I believe that the time has now passed for those working with old fashioned methods to be called web professionals.

This lit [...]

Cure Is A Four Letter Word.

Monday, November 14th, 2005

But then again, so is ‘love’.

Do you know what? I’m tired of fighting with people. I’m coming off the worst flu I’ve had for nearly 6 years, my wife’s had it, our kids have all had it and I’m physically, emotionally and motivationally drained.

All I wanted when I started this was to document my autistic [...]

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