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Archive for February, 2009

Bad Spin, bad interpretations, bad for the community

Friday, February 20th, 2009

I was hoping to move on from the Omnibus decisions. Let’s face it, it’s hard on that fraction of our community that believes in vaccine causation. Also. let’s face it, the decision is so clear and decisive that it is hard to add anything to it or complain about any parts. But then Barbara Fisher [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Autism Omnibus | 8 Comments »

Who carries the authority?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The recent Omnibus decisions are hoped by some to stem the tide of rabid anti-vaccine beliefs espoused by people who shame the name of autism advocacy. On Salon, Rahul K. Parikh says: In the case of autism, science and reason have too often failed to reach people. And consequently they have turned to the courts. [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Omnibus, Ben Goldacre, Blogging, David Kirby, Jenny McCarthy, MMR, Thimerosal, badscience, daily-mail | 14 Comments »

Give your ego a rest

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

hu·bris (hy??’br?s) n. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. Since the first set of Omnibus decisions have come in we’ve seen demonstration after demonstration of the personal hubris of one person after another from the antivaxosphere. This is not unusual from that camp of course. Who can forget Mark Blaxill’s self-aggrandising pontificationon AoA regarding blogs that [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism | 13 Comments »

Brian Deer, not a complainant

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Just in case you didn’t see it—Brian Deer published more information about Dr. Andrew Wakefield recently. This has caused a lot of furor (we are over 160 comments on that thread already). No surprises there: saying anything which might suggest Dr. Wakefield is anything less than a hero, especially when Brian Deer is doing it, [...]

Posted in Autism, Brian Deer, David Kirby, MMR, Wakefield | 43 Comments »