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Archive for November, 2008

A greater acceptance

Monday, November 24th, 2008

“I don’t subscribe to the notion of the ‘perfect human being’ and found the idea of selecting one child in preference to another abhorrent.” A survey by the Down’s Syndrome Association reports on how the parents of Down’s kids have elected to parent rather than abort their children in increasing numbers. Following the introduction of [...]

Posted in Autism, Down's Syndrome | 7 Comments »

Bad Science Part 1: Randomisation

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I’ve finally finished ‘Bad Science’ by Ben Goldacre and I intend to give this a bit more than just a review. I intend to take certain bits from it and blog them in order to explain why the scientific concepts you hear expounded about on this blog and others are important – or more accurately, [...]

Posted in Autism, Ben Goldacre, Science, badscience | 5 Comments »

Another autistic child murdered

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The Wisconsin State Journal reports that 12 year old Kyle Dutter was murdered by his dad.. He wasn’t killed. He was murdered. His dad, his own father, put him in the car, drove him a distance and then shot him. This coward then turned the gun on himself, thus at least saving Kyle’s family the [...]

Posted in Autism, Katie, Parenting | 43 Comments »

I object! (Part 3)

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

If you’ve been reading these past few days, you know that I find a recent letter sent to the IACC by a number of autism organizations to be, well, objectionable (hence the post titles!). I’ve noted that I don’t like the way they claim backing from a united “autism community”. I don’t like the way [...]

Posted in ARI, Age of Autism, Autism, DAN!, Generation Rescue, IACC, NIH, National Autism Association, Safe Minds, TACA | 2 Comments »