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The trouble with science

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I was recently interviewed for an editorial in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. The editorial is called: Silencing debate over autism Despite the lack of scientific evidence that childhood vaccines cause autism, extreme tactics used by those convinced that this hypothesis is correct have been increasingly successful in influencing public opinion and legislation. In [...]

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Oh David, David, David….

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

David Kirby has been chewing away at the edge of the CDDS data since it became apparent that he’d screwed up and actually set himself (and the thiomersal hypothesis) an actual measurable target (eek!). I can’t believe there isn’t anyone in the autism community who doesn’t know about the CDDS’ data and its role from [...]

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Just Sayin’

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

This was not a pleasant video to put together and I hope it will not be pleasant to watch. However, I think there are more than a few people out there who really need a cold, hard dash of reality. Share

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Cho

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

In one sense I have a perspective that most of my online friends (and not so friends) do not when it comes to Cho. I’m not American, I don’t live in America, I don’t have the familiarity of living in a country where it is ‘the norm’ to carry handguns. We had Dunblane and Hungerford [...]

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