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Into The Unknown With The Unknowing

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

The unknown is exciting. As a species we seem innately curious about seeing whats over the next hill, beyond the next valley, what happens if we heat this liquid to its boiling point, etc etc. But fairly obviously, we quickly realised that if we didn’t exert some level of control over the things we were [...]

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Don’t ‘Dis’ The Ability

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Autism can confer gifts as well as troubling comorbidities sometimes. Thats a message thats frequently overlooked when people talk about hell/abyss/misery/nightmare of autism.

Christophe Pillault, Olivet, France, was born in Iran in 1982. An autistic savant, he is unable to talk, walk or feed himself. He discovered painting, using his hands though unable to [...]

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More Blog Housekeeping And Some Thanks

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

First the ‘thanks’.

I wrote a series of articles I collectively titled Project: New early last year. I wrote them to try and disseminate the idea of web standards to web developers who weren’t yet taking a standards based approach. The series takes you from taking an initial brief to cutting over the final project to [...]

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Drug Error, Not Chelation Therapy, Killed Boy, Expert Says

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

A report in the Post Gazette includes an interview with Dr. Mary Jean Brown, chief of the Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She says that:

“without a doubt” that it was medical error, and not the therapy itself, that led to the death of a 5-year-old boy who [...]

Posted in MMR, Mercury, Thimerosal | 84 Comments »