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Archive for July, 2006

Progress/No Progress

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

It’s fascinating to me how things seem to go in circles, an idea is challenged, is rejected, you think you’ve moved on and then you find that same idea being used as a strawman argument against you. In recent days following the massively successful petition regarding the ‘Autism Every Day’ video and the flurry of [...]

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Autism Diva: Kelloggs Just Trying To Help

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

The following is taken word for work from Autism Diva’s blog. I’ve turned off comments here and strongly encourage you to comment at Diva’s place. If you follow autism news and/or gossip you may have heard that Autism Speaks is working with the Kellogg’s cereal folks to promote Autism Speaks as a mainstream authority in [...]

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Stalling For Time, Mainstream Death, Underground Immortality

Friday, July 21st, 2006

A few days ago I posted about how bad a time the autism = mercury poisoning via thiomersal/vaccines believers were having of late. There was the Fombonne study which revealed yet more lack of correlation between vaccines and autism, then there was the first legal try-out of the quality of the science and the scientific [...]

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Bill Welsh – Autism Treatment Trust ‘s Bewildering Conclusions

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Bill Welsh, ex head of the now defunct ‘Action Against Autism’ and current big cheese at the ‘Autism Treatment Trust’ recently responded to a new study in The Lancet that suggested a prevalence rate for autism in the UK of 1 in 100. His response was published in The Herald and I reproduce it in [...]

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