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The Autism Speaks Book List

Monday, August 29th, 2011

I want to like Autism Speaks. I really do. I know some very good people working with Autism Speaks. From a very practical standpoint, they are one of the biggest autism organizations and I need them to be doing good. Unfortunately, sometimes Autism Speaks does things which I really find difficult to support. Recently, I [...]

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Aging in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Mini-Review

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

I am both encouraged and saddened by this recent paper. Encouraged that someone is taking up the topic of aging and autism. Saddened because there is very little work out there so far. The paper is from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK. Here is [...]

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Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality

Friday, August 26th, 2011

The United States Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just published a lengthy report, Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality. The short summary, via Reuters, is: “the big take-home message is that we found only a few cases in which vaccines can cause adverse side effects, and the vast majority of those are short-term and [...]

Posted in Autism, MMR, Measles, Mercury, Vaccines, Wakefield | 2 Comments »

ACHAMP resorts to calling health legislation the “California Pedophile Protection Act of 2011″

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

ACHAMP, now the “Autism Action Network”, wants Californians to lobby against Assembly Bill 499. Why? Because it would allow minors access to the vaccine against HPV (human papillomavirus) without parental consent. I have yet to hear a good explanation why supposedly autism organizations have such a fixation on the HPV vaccine. Seriously, has anyone made [...]

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