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Archive for May, 2007

Father knows best?

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Larry made a couple of comments on my last but one post regarding the vaccine/autism link that puzzled me a bit. I thought at the time that he’d missed the point. Larry is not quite as enamoured of science as I am – fair enough – although he sees the dangers of the anti-vaccine lot [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Hub, Neurodiversity | 51 Comments »

Autism Omnibus crashing?

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Another few points of interest in the Autism Omnibus proceedings. Firstly and perhaps most significantly is the defining of the Omnibus proceedings as being at ‘crisis point’ by the Special Masters overseeing the case: Petitioners were supposed to provide (by their own suggestion) test cases that would show, in the first instance, how MMR and [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, MMR, Mercury, Thimerosal | 30 Comments »

On media, neurodiversity and science

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Opinions vary as to why I, and many of my online friends believe what we do. The answers cannot be easily encapsulated but an indication is given by the source of the two links I’ve just linked to. The first group believe autism is not just a disability, that it is both more and less [...]

Posted in Autism, DAN!, David Kirby, Katie Wright, Neurodiversity, Quackery, Schafer | 17 Comments »

Lenny Schafer’s Delicious Cheap Shot

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

It’s no secret that I don’t think much of either the reasoning powers, nor general behaviour, of the collection of individuals that populate David Kirby’s ‘Evidence of Harm’ Yahoo Group. Every time I think they can’t surprise and disgust me more, they manage it. This is the group of people from which sprung an anonymous [...]

Posted in Autism, Neurodiversity, Personal, Schafer | 30 Comments »