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Archive for February, 2006

The Geier’s Go Dumpster Diving Again

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

In their increasingly forlorn looking attempt to get some kind (any kind!) of connection between thiomersal and autism, the Geiers launched a new paper. Announced in the Schafer Mercury Report as follows: The study, published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, a peer reviewed journal, by Dr. Mark Geier and David Geier examined [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Mercury, Thimerosal | 92 Comments »

Quick Quiz

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I came across an interesting post on EoH today. Its interesting for lots of reasons, notably its misrepresentation. A few of the responses (from Erik and Wade notably) referred to me so I thought I should at least grace them (and the op) with a reply. QUICK QUIZ: Which physical symptoms should be ignored in [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Mercury, Thimerosal | 71 Comments »

Lupron Rears Its Head

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

The issue of Lupron finally raises its head above the parapet of autism. I’m going to attempt to ‘bring together’ the various discussions that have sprung up and then have my say on the subject. But before I do, lets just clarify what we’re talking about. There is an unsubstantiated theory put about by Boyd [...]

Posted in Chelation, Mercury, Thimerosal | 52 Comments »

Web Developers Are Idiots Too

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Very infrequently on this blog, the two main areas of discussion (autism and web development) intersect. Today is one of those times. You may or may not know that the US National Federation for the Blind are suing Target over their inaccessible site. The NFB alerted Target some months ago and to retrofit the changes [...]

Posted in Advocacy | 32 Comments »