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Sharyl Attkisson’s 3rd autism/vaccine concession

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

A few days ago, I posted an entry about Sharyl Attkisson’s breathless parroting of ‘facts’ regarding a case from 1991 based on a child born in 1974. This case was settled in favour of the child. It transpired (of course) that the Special Master had in fact said nothing about autism whatsoever. However, an interesting [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Omnibus, Disability, Dravert syndrome, Genetics, Science | 4 Comments »

Endemic in the UK

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Endemic: Adj.1.endemic – of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; “diseases endemic to the tropics”; “endemic malaria”; “food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world” Or, another example is measles in the UK. How very shameful [...]

Posted in Autism, CDC, MMR, Measles, Wakefield | 6 Comments »

Kelli Ann Davis doesn’t get it

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Over on Orac’s blog, a discussion is ongoing about (you guessed it) thiomersal. One of the usual antivax canards is played beautifully by Kelli Ann Davis when she says: So Phoenix Woman [another commenter], can you explain to me what the skull and crossbones is doing on the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) if thimerosal [...]

Posted in Autism, Kelli Ann Davis, Mercury, Thimerosal | 104 Comments »

Dear civilised world

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Hi, I’m parent to an autistic child. I want to write a letter to apologise for the actions, inactions and unerring stupidity of some of my fellow parents of autistic people. You see, we have become something of a scapegoat, us autism parents. But – it has to be said – a scapegoat who really [...]

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