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Murderers should not be pitied

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The deaths of a man and his 11-year-old autistic son on Sunday were the result of a murder-suicide, Edmonton police said….”To say that this can’t happen for other families,” Phillips said as her eyes welled up with tears talking about the tragedy. “The dad just felt he couldn’t do it any longer and he just [...]

Posted in Autism, Katie, Parenting | 30 Comments »

1 in 100 adults are autistic

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The prevalence of autism amongst adults is found to be 1%, similar to that in children. Adult autistics are found to be much more likely to be unmarried, of lower education levels and in communal housing.

Posted in Adults, Autism, Autism Epidemic, Epidemiology, Science | 12 Comments »

I am autism video removed from Autism Speaks’ website…or is it?

Monday, September 28th, 2009

I am not fond of the Autism Speaks video, “I am Autism”. I think I’ve made that clear. I was heartened to hear that Autism Speaks had removed it from their website. That moment was short lived. Over at Whose Planet Is It Anyway?, abfh has noted that Autism Speaks has posted an email that [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Speaks, Orgs | 4 Comments »

John Stone/Polly Tommey claim oversight

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

The first official sounding of the death knell for the ‘hidden horde’ hypothesis of autism (it must be vaccines because there aren’t 1 in 160/150/100 adult autistics) was recently sounded (as reported by Anthony) when an NHS study announced that the rate of autism amongst adults was 1% – exactly the same as for kids. [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Brian Deer, MMR, News, Polly Tommey, badscience | 99 Comments »