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Archive for May, 2011

PaulOffit.com, a tempest in a teapot

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

A month or so back, I stepped forward to state that I, Matt Carey, have been posting as Sullivan here on Left Brain/Right Brain. Mr. J.B. Handley of the Age of Autism blog and Generation Rescue had made a commitment to transfer the domain pauloffit.com and to stop commenting on Dr. Offit should it be [...]

Posted in JB Handley, Paul Offit | 4 Comments »

AutismOne: Don’t snark on me…we’ve got security and police!

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Remember Jamie Bernstein? Her site, hug me, I’m vaccinated, should give you an idea of her stance. She’s the woman who took a picture with Andrew Wakefield at his big rally last year, and slipped him a note that said Dear Andrew Wakefield, I know that you truly believe that what you are doing is [...]

Posted in Legal | 54 Comments »

ASF Strongly Supports Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011

Friday, May 27th, 2011

The Combating Autism Act (CAA) “sunsets” this September. That means that the mandate to focus the U.S. government’s research efforts will end. This doesn’t mean that autism research will stop being funded, but it means that the IACC will end, and a commitment to specific funding levels will sunset. Here is a statement by the [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Science Foundation, IACC, Politics | 8 Comments »

Matthew Israel avoids prison – just

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

According to the Boston Globe, Matthew Israel will step down from the Judge Rotenberg Center as part of a package to avoid doing jail time. The founder of the controversial Judge Rotenberg Educational Center is scheduled to face criminal charges in Dedham today arising from a night in 2007 when two special needs teenagers at [...]

Posted in Autism, Legal | 19 Comments »