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Environment of Harmful Ideas

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

There used to be an email group on Yahoo devoted to the ideas in David Kirby’s book, Evidence of Harm? It was called Evidence of Harm or EOH for short. The book was ostensibly an exercise in investigative journalism. Had there been a dramatic increase in autism amongst children born in the 1990s? Was this [...]

Tags: Autism, Environment of Harm, murder
Posted in Action Groups, EoH Group | 13 Comments »

Blogs raise the alarm on autism conference

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

That’s the title of a post on Canada’s National Post website. Another article on the main site reads Controversial autism conference got funds from Sick Kids . The pieces are about the fact that Sick Kids, a highly respected children’s hospital, is hosting a Canadian version of the Autism One conference. AutismNewsBeat attended and reported [...]

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David Kirby: No friend to my autistic kid

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

David Kirby is certainly no friend to my autistic child. I don’t know why I let David Kirby annoy me. It is a pretty safe bet that whenever he blogs he will write something that rubs me the wrong way. Whether it is his clear lack of science acumen or his faux fence sitting “I’m [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, David Kirby | 18 Comments »

Are blood mercury levels an important metric in autism?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

A recent study shows that autistic children do not have more mercury in their blood than typical children. When it came out I didn’t have time to discuss it. I have some time now, and other people have blogged it, so I decided it was time to address some thoughts here. The study, from the [...]

Posted in Autism, Mercury, Safe Minds, Vaccines | 7 Comments »