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Archive for November, 2009

A quicker guide to the ‘Green Vaccines’ Initiative

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Some music to accompany this entry. Over at AoA, Kent Heckenlively must be making the rest of the crew nervoous. Maybe you haven’t read his brand new idea for making the ‘green our vaccines’ initiative a political…um…’force’. To whit: We’re not going to get anywhere with our current legal system because everything gets funneled into [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Age of Autism, Autism, Blogging, Green our Vaccines, MMR, Mercury, Vaccines | 8 Comments »

Pass the Maalox: An AoA Thanksgiving Nightmare

Monday, November 30th, 2009

It is no secret that I don’t appreciate the humor or the pseudoscience at the Age of Autism blog. Frankly, the pseudoscience is worse than the humor as it is so damaging to the autism communities. But, both are an embarrassment. So, you can imagine my reaction to their recent post “Pass the Maalox: An [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Omnibus, Vaccines | 22 Comments »

John’s Hopkins FAQs: The meaning of neuroinflammatory findings in autism

Monday, November 30th, 2009

In their recent series on autism the Chicago Tribune exposed how a Johns Hopkins team’s findings of neuroinflammation have been misused to justify unproven autism treatments. The Tribune included very short piece, Researchers warn against misusing report. The piece includes a link with some very valuable information, but it is unfortunately somewhat obscure. The web [...]

Posted in Autism, Extreme biomed, Immune System, Neurobiology, Science | 6 Comments »

Age of Autism to Autism Families: Make your children suffer

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Your pretty red house is engulfed in a roaring fire. You keep feeding the fire. Maybe petrol will help. Pour it on. Maybe some oil. Pour that on too. You don’t know. Nobody knows. Some guy you met on the internet tells you he’s a fireman and that the best way to stop a fire [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Autism Myths, Autism's False Prophets, Blogging, Chelation, DAN!, Generation Rescue, badscience | 28 Comments »