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Autistic and in New Jersey? Governor Corzine needs your input

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Autism is too often characterized as being something affecting children or families with children with autism. New Jersey has established an “Adults with Autism Task Force”. This is a great opportunity to be heard. The survey below gives those in New Jersey exactly this opportunity. ASAN highly encourages eligible people to fill out this survey. [...]

Posted in ASAN, Ari Ne'eman, Autism | 1 Comment »

New thimerosal study, altogether now…

Monday, January 26th, 2009

...there’s still no link. ‘Neuropsychological Performance 10 Years After Immunization in Infancy With Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines’ is a new study from Italy. Nearly 70% of the invited subjects participated in the neuropsychological assessment (N = 1403). Among the 24 neuropsychological outcomes that were evaluated, only 2 were significantly associated with thimerosal exposure. Girls with higher thimerosal [...]

Posted in Autism, Epidemiology, Mercury, Science, Thimerosal | 32 Comments »

Two new websites and help needed

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

As is my won’t I keep trying to stretch my web wings. The web is a hobby as well as my career so its only natural (I guess) that I branch out from time to time. The first website is a personal one. Its based around the idea of Lifestreaming: An online record of a [...]

Posted in Autism, Blogging, Personal | 5 Comments »

Are autism organizations acting in good faith?

Monday, January 19th, 2009

As one might imagine, this is a follow up post to Kev’s post, Did the IACC act in bad faith? Obviously, much damage control is ongoing right now. Some autism organizations were hoping for a document from the U.S. Federal Government indicating that vaccines might be implicated as a causal factor in autism. No surprises [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Speaks, NIH, National Autism Association, Safe Minds, TACA | 16 Comments »