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Archive for August, 2010

Review of the Introduction of Age of Autism – the book.

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

So begins the Olmsted/Blaxill upcoming book ‘Age of Autism’. ...instead of taking Kanner’s word for it, [we decided] to learn about these previously anonymous families ourselves. We took clues from his extensive case descriptions and started uncovering the identities of the original families. Time and again, we connected the occupations of the parents to plausible [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Autism Books, Books, Dan Olmsted, Mark Blaxill, Mercury, Thimerosal, Vaccines, badscience | 11 Comments »

We will support your foundations

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

I read a terrible, terrifying blog post post yesterday from Kim Stagliano on the Huffington Post. In it she describes how her daughter has suffered abuse at the hands of a support worker. The story is also coverered by the Connecticut Times. Police said the girl’s parents were trying to figure out how their non-verbal [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Kim Stagliano, News | 23 Comments »

LBRB on Facebook

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

I finally got around to creating a ‘Fan’ page on Facebook for LBRB as an alternative to the Networked Blog. I do understand theres an unofficial page floating around but please consider this the official LBRB page. Also please take the time to click the ‘like’ box (below on the right) to add to the [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Blogging, Facebook, News, This Blog, badscience | 1 Comment »

Eli Lilly halts two clinical trials of an experimental Alzheimer’s treatment

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

This has been reported in a number of places, including the New York Times in their article Lilly Stops Alzheimer’s Drug Trials. From the NY Times: Eli Lilly halted two late-stage clinical trials of an experimental Alzheimer’s treatment on Tuesday, representing a setback to one leading theory on treating the degenerative disease and a new [...]

Posted in Autism, Chelation, Extreme biomed, Lupron, Mercury, Thimerosal | 5 Comments »