I really do plan to get back to real autism related subjects. I do. This subject just came up yesterday and it really bugs me so I decided to write something quick. One of the most common statements from the groups (Generation Rescue, Think About Curing Autism (TACA), the National Autism Association, SafeMinds….) who promote [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Why don’t the so-called “vaccine safety” orgs talk about vaccine safety?
Friday, October 30th, 2009IACC meeting November 10
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The following is an announcement from the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) will be holding a Full Committee Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Boulevard, in Rockville, MD. The agenda [...]
Amy Wallace discusses the responses she got to the WIRED article
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009A recent article in WIRED magazine took a close look at the vaccine/autism discussion. I discussed it briefly in a previous post. The article took a very science-oriented stance which, you can imagine, did not please the vaccines-cause-autism organizations. For example, the “vaccines-cause-autism” organizations are listed by WIRED as “anti-vaccine” organizations. The WIRED piece has [...]
Number of cases before the vaccine court drop off dramatically
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009We often hear about how there are about 5000 cases before the vaccine court claiming autism as a vaccine injury. What we don’t hear is that almost all of those cases were filed years ago. Take a look at the data on the number of cases filed per year. Or, take a look at this [...]
- Autism Advocacy: Developing New Markets
- Student placed in cardboard box for time out, others called mentally retarded in their yearbook
- ASAN: URGENT! Ask Your Senators to Support a Ban on Aversives!
- TPGA: IMFAR 2012: An Update on the ASD DSM-5 Recommendations
- Some first-hand reports from IMFAR
- Adult Outcomes in Autism: A Prospective Longitudinal Examination of the Effects of Early Intensive Intervention: A 20 Year Follow-Up
- ASAN: Urge For the Ban on Aversives in Massachusetts!
- Study Finds Early Childhood Educators Can Effectively Screen Students For Autism In Underserved Communities
- The Implications of DSM V: Changes in Diagnostic Outcomes in An Adult Clinical Sample Re-Diagnosed According to the Proposed DSM V
- IMFAR 2012 begins
- Helping A Child With Autsim on Rethinking Autism: the book. We don’t have to put the cart before the horse....
- Shawni on Judge Rotenberg Center: Teen tied and shocked for hours; mom calls it “torture”: This is...
- Science Mom on Some first-hand reports from IMFAR: I’m still working on research proposals, and for that matter the...
- Kassiane on Some first-hand reports from IMFAR: Tom, “about us without us” is not acceptable. And...
- Sullivan on Student placed in cardboard box for time out, others called mentally retarded in their yearbook: thans...
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- Tom on Some first-hand reports from IMFAR: Scientific associations don’t usually reach out to the patient...
- Science Mom on Some first-hand reports from IMFAR: I know that including us isn’t something they want to do...
- Kassiane on Some first-hand reports from IMFAR: I’ve been doing this longer than you’ve known what autism...
- Science Mom on Some first-hand reports from IMFAR: @Marjorie You assume autistic people don’t apply. We do. But we...
- J.B. Handley Forsworn
- The blogger and the doctor
- Md. suspends autism doctor's license
- 10 deadly myths about childhood vaccines Pictures
- The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru
- Health experts stress importance of MMR
- Todd Drezner: Learning to Embrace Autism
- Vaccines, autism, and Andrew Wakefield's wake
- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear -- Grinker 168 (3): 332 -- Am J Psychiatry
- Jenny McCarthy: Still Sticking with Debunked Autism Theory and Using ‘Mob Mind’ as Excuse
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