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Archive for February, 2010

Did TACA change the rules to deny a blogger attendance at a conference?

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Two years ago, AutismNewsBeat was Expelled! from an autism “conference” (AutismOne). Today, he was denied admission to the TACA Real Help Now Conference in Wisconsin. TACA’s stated policy on the website is: TACA strives to ensure that the focus of our conference is education and support, and to provide a safe, supportive environment for our [...]

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In praise of pediatricians

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Caught in the crossfire of the autism/vaccine debate are the pediatricians. Often the discussion of vaccines and autism devolves into insinuating that pediatricians all know about vaccines causing autism, but they make most of their much money from vaccines. It is a disgusting lie, and one so transparent. Maybe I have the only good pediatrician [...]

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Successful blogging by Steven Novella: the Desiree Jennings story

Friday, February 26th, 2010

I stayed away from this story until now. It isn’t about autism at all, except that “Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s Autism Organization—Generation Rescue” decided to take the story on. Why a supposedly autism organization took on the story of an adult who was supposedly injured by a flu vaccine is not clear to this [...]

Posted in Autism, Blogging, Generation Rescue, Vaccines | 13 Comments »

ABC Radio interviews Brian Deer

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

RearVision, an ABC (Australia) radio news program, has an interview with Brian Deer titled The MMR vaccine scare. They have both audio and transcript available. Even before Keri Phillips of ABC gets to Mr. Deer, she makes it clear that this isn’t going to be some fluff piece with faux-balance: What Richard Horton didn’t know [...]

Posted in Autism, Brian Deer, MMR, News, Vaccines, Wakefield | 1 Comment »