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The arrogance of the Autism Treatment Trust

Friday, November 26th, 2010

Earlier this week, Anthony wrote about the Autism Treatment Trust and their arrogance in assuming that association with a Nobel prize winner meant their untested therapies were suddenly OK to use. Today I discovered that their arrogance extended to ignoring the law in the services they offer. According to their website: ...if you are in [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Treatment Trust, Legal | 38 Comments »

Hope and False Hope

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Hope. It’s a wonderful thing, and something that parents of children with autism deserve to have in their lives. Fortunately, science shows that there is very good reason for hope. It shows that children with autism continue to learn and develop throughout their lives. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2765385/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15666341 But false hope is another matter. As we saw [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Myths, Extreme biomed, Science, badscience | 68 Comments »

But…it’s toxic!

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Warning, non autism subject. Rather, the subject is misinformation by pseudo-autism bloggers. “It’s toxic”. We hear that a lot about vaccine ingredients, especially thimerosal. But, dose makes the poison. As if I need to say that, yet again. But, once again there is a campaign to scare people about vaccines, using mercury as the hammer. [...]

Posted in Autism, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 14 Comments »

The shame of the autism community

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Sully wrote a post yesterday about how the so-called autism community that Safe Minds alleges it is part of is running blatantly antivax adverts in cinemas whilst ignoring autism related stories. As counterpoint to that, I came across two stories in the online version of the Daily Mail yesterday with two supremely differing outcomes. In [...]

Posted in Vaccines | 10 Comments »