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Older dads contribute to autism

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Just a quick one as I haven’t read the whole paper yet but it’ll be of interest to readers of this blog so: Advancing paternal age is associated with deficits in social and exploratory behaviors in the offspring: a mouse model. BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence from epidemiological research has demonstrated an association between advanced paternal age [...]

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Special fevers, mitochondria and autism

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Thats right, its back. Ginny Hughes, writing for the Simons Foundation writes about new methods of detecting mitochondrial damages that may lead to autism. Of course, since last year that inextricably calls to mind Hannah Poling. Just as a quick refresh, Hannah’s case was compensated by US Gvmt who accepted that vaccines caused a fever [...]

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Less evolved creatures

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Back in of this year, Wired did a piece called ‘An Epidemic of Fear’ that exposed some of the anti-vaccine charlatans masquerading as purveyors of science that have infested the autism community in the last 10 years or so. Amy Wallace’s excellent piece (”An Epidemic of Fear,” issue 17.11) isn’t really even about vaccines. It’s [...]

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Autism Personality of the Year

Monday, December 28th, 2009

As the year ends the media indulges in lists that attempt to summarize the past and predict the future. So why not add the Autism Personality Of THe Year or APOTHY award, to be made to those who represent the APOTHEOSIS of our movement? Here are my nominations. Autistic Person of the Year. Ari Ne’eman [...]

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