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Archive for March, 2009

The vaccine debate has a real cost

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Of course, this isn’t news. But usually the cost is characterized in the danger to public health. What about the cost to people with autism? Here’s a blog post from the Simons Foundation. (as an aside—there is a real autism organization). They are quoting Cathy Lord and Paul Shattuck. Given the diversity of the panel’s [...]

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Mild hyperbaric therapy for autism – Shh!…don’t say it’s expensive

Monday, March 30th, 2009

When I recently wrote about the new HBOT-for-autism study (Rossignol et al. 2009)1, I took issue with unlikely claimed treatment pressures for at least one of the study locations. While a potential methodological weakness, this is probably a fairly small problem in light of potential issues with blinding and interpretation of the results as quantitatively [...]

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Features of autism

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I was planning on writing something about this for the 1 year anniversary of when the Department of Justice concession to Hannah Poling was leaked. Why wait until now? Because it was basically impossible to discuss this last year. Immediately after the leak, the phrase “features of autism” was made into a running joke. The [...]

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Growing up fast

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I wrote a few days ago about autism, murder, crime and morality. The conclusion I reached was that based on the studies I read, criminality was uncommon among autistic people compared to non-autistic controls. Morality was also present in all degrees of autistic severity. In a disturbing and frightening post at Salon yesterday Ann Bauer [...]

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