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IACC meeting tomorrow

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is holding a regular meeting tomorrow. The announcement is below. The IACC creates the “Strategic Plan” which guides autism research efforts in the United States. Primarily, the Plan is for use by U.S. governmental groups, but there is input from major private sources of autism research funding as well. [...]

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Recruitment of Wakefield’s study subjects…part 1

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

It has already been well established that Andrew Wakefield was employed by Dawbarns, a lawfirm working with families bringing forward claims of vaccine damage from MMR. Brian Deer made this clear in his investigative reporting starting in 2004. Even with that, I must say I was surprised and dismayed to read it again and in [...]

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The Rouse letter: how Wakefield was almost caught in 1998

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

For those who have followed the story of Andrew Wakefield, the fact that he had multiple conflicts of interest is not news. The subjects in his now retracted 1998 paper in The Lancet were far from a random sample of autistics. They were even far from a random sample of autistics with GI problems. Brian [...]

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Is there a point to blogging Age of Autism – the book?

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Recently Sully asked if there was value in continuing to report of a certain AJ Wakefield’s exploits. It got me to thinking – is there continuing value on blogging Age of Autism, the book? The most recent chapters have descended into very very familiar territory with the Somali and Amish episodes being regurgitated to seemingly [...]

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