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Archive for June, 2006

If Someone’s Not Broke, Don’t Fix Them

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

National Public Radio in America aired a report about autism and the growing self advocacy movement today. I strongly suggest you download the audio and listen to the voices of autistic people. Someone I know was interviewed – Amanda Baggs. Amanda has been an advocate longer than any of us I think. She’s smarter than [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism | 24 Comments »

Indefensible And Unprotested

Monday, June 26th, 2006

The McCarron family and the Leitch family have become close over the last few weeks. We have never met. We have never heard each others voices. We have only seen pictures of each other and communicated by email but in that communication has been a sharing of warmth, emotion and desire to connect such as [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Advocacy, Autism, Personal, This Blog | 84 Comments »

Kevin Leitch: Big Pharma Shill

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

I’m involved in a protracted discussion with a bunch of anti-vaccinationistas on what claims to be an autism support forum. Amongst them is the hilarious srniath who is treating is child with Lupron but who didn’t know what CPP or PPP was and didn’t know that excess testosterone could be caused by vitamin and supplements. [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Autism Epidemic, Personal | 10 Comments »

MMR And The Daily Mail – Archetypal Strawmen

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

In their continuing quest to establish MMR as evil in a syringe, the Daily Mail are turning increasingly to more and more blatant strawman fallacies. In a recent article entitled *’We won’t allow MMR cover-up say parents of tragic toddlers’* , the Daily Mail reach new lows of journalism. The parents of two healthy toddlers [...]

Posted in Autism, MMR, Wakefield, daily-mail | 88 Comments »