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Archive for February, 2007

Harold L Doherty – at it again

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Harold Doherty last week built himself an army of strawmen in order to demoinse the neurodiversity movement. I and many people left comments that were never published so I wrote the above linked post to demonstrate to Mr Doherty how illogical, ill-thought out and just plain old wrong his points were. He never responded but [...]

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Meg’s blog – update

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Just a small update. If you look to your right in section 01 of the sidebar you will note a new link – this is to the latest post on Megan’s blog. I’ve been aware for awhile that its very difficult for a private access blog to ‘let people know’ when its been updated so [...]

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Evil neurodiverse rising

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Sometimes there’s a sea-change in the atmosphere that you can just sense and following a recent unprecedented few days for autism acceptance I can feel one of those sea changes. Things kicked off with Jeanette’s family appearance on a US show called Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (very extreme. I understand they literally knock down your [...]

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David Kirby’s Causation Trail

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

In a truly fascinating exchange on the Evidence of Harm Yahoo Group, David Kirby has revealed: ...the studies which, when taken together, suggest a plausible biological mechanism for mercury exposure as a contributing factor to regressive autism The exchange came about as a ‘renegade’ poster to that group started laying down a smidgen of fact [...]

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