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The Age of Autism before thimerosal

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill have written a book, The Age of Autism. It expands on Mr. Olmsted’s UPI series of the same name and uses the same logic: build a narrative that links mercury to illnesses and claim this as proof that mercury is the cause. One can download the first 46 pages of [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Books, Dan Olmsted, Mark Blaxill | 26 Comments »

Donald Triplett – Autism’s Patient Zero

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Donald Triplett is (for he is still alive) Kanner’s Case 1. Recently the story in a lovely portrait in The Atlantic, Donald has also had the sad misfortune to slowly but inexorably become a poster child for the autism/anti-vaccine movement. As one of the leading autism/anti-vaccine proponents, Ginger Taylor, writes: While Kanner’s other cases had [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Dan Olmsted, Donald Triplett, Ginger Taylor, Hannah Poling, Mark Blaxill | 10 Comments »

Barbara Loe Fisher discusses her failed lawsuit against Paul Offit and Amy Wallace

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Amy Wallace wrote an article on the vaccine/autism discussion entitled An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All. In it she quotes both Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center. As part of that article, Ms. Wallace quoted Dr. [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Books, Autism's False Prophets, Paul Offit, Vaccines | 15 Comments »

Safeminds comments on the latest thimerosal-autism study

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

SafeMinds is an organization which has long promoted the idea that thimerosal caused an autism epidemic. They may be the single greatest force that got the idea into the public’s eye, and got research funding focused on looking at the question. SafeMinds has shown themselves to be very resistant to the very research they called [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue, Mercury, National Autism Association, Orgs, Safe Minds, Science, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 3 Comments »