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Archive for March, 2007

Katie Wright and Autism Speaks – woo confirmed

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

For the last few weeks the subject of ire on the EoH maillist has been Autism Speaks, they’ve been the subject of some very nasty descriptions indeed. The reason is that the EoHers knew that Katie Wright, daughter of the owners of Autism Speaks, was taking her son Christian to a DAN! doctor and yet [...]

Posted in ARI, Autism, Chelation, DAN!, David Kirby, Mercury, Quackery | 92 Comments »

Education data is the new black

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Or, more accurately, Education data is the new CDDS. Up until this year, David Kirby, Lenny Schafer, Rick Rollens et al said that CDDS data was the gold standard of autism data and because rates were rising during the 90’s according to CDDS data this proved that vaccines caused autism. Then they said this would [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Mercury, Schafer, Skeptic, Thimerosal | 26 Comments »

New: Autism Parents Forum

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I’m launching a new project today primarily for parents of autistic children (of any age) which I’ve called Autism Parents. I wanted to set up a forum where parents of autistic people who weren’t necessarily interested in the idea of cure could get together and swap hints/tips on parenting in an easier format than a [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Neurodiversity | 34 Comments »

Brandon Williams, dead at 5

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

2006 was a bad year. The worst of years. A lot of autistic kids were killed by their parents. I got sick of writing about these stories. Not bored, don’t misunderstand me, but sick, really physically sick that a parent could do this to a child. That the parent of a disabled child could do [...]

Posted in Autism | 25 Comments »