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Another Disabled Child Murdered

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

In what is becoming a very uneasy chain of events, yet another disabled child, WIlliam H Lash IV, has died at the hands of a parent: A former Bush administration official, after arguing violently with his wife Thursday night, shot and killed his 12-year-old son inside their McLean home, then turned a shotgun on himself [...]

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Erik Nanstiel And FAIR Autism Media

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Earlier today I posted a link to an online petition that I’d created where those who disagreed with Autism Speaks recent propaganda piece ‘Autism Every Day’ and its messages that its acceptable to excuse murder, that most parents of autistic kids harbour thoughts of murder and that the reality of parenting autistic kids is never [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Advocacy, Autism | 25 Comments »

Autism Speaks: Don’t Speak For Me

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Following on from the furore created by the very misleading Autism Every Day film, I’ve set up a petition to make sure that the film-makers realise that not all parents of autistic people, or autistic people themselves, or professionals who work with autistic people are harbouring thoughts of murder. Neither do we appreciate our lives [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Advocacy, Autism, Autism Hub | 11 Comments »

Bad Week For Thiomersal/Autism Hypothesis

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

It’s really not been such a good week or so to believe the thiomersal/autism hypothesis. Firstly, there was the latest Canadian study that concluded: The prevalence of pervasive developmental disorder in Montreal was high, increasing in recent birth cohorts as found in most countries. Factors accounting for the increase include a broadening of diagnostic concepts [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Chelation, MMR, Mercury, Thimerosal | 12 Comments »