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Archive for the ‘Paul Offit’ Category

Barbara Loe Fisher’s lawsuit against Paul Offit dismissed

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

If you recall, last October Wired Magazine had an article: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All. Barbara Loe Fisher of the self-named National Vaccine Information Center took issue with a section of that article and sued Dr. Paul Offit. The complaint is here.

Ms. Fisher was suing Dr. [...]

Autism Epidemic Talk

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

A couple of slap dash blog pieces appeared today both on the same subject – the so called autism epidemic. First off is Harold who writes about a series of interviews with David Kirby. David says:

It’s crazy that in this debate, we’re still debating whether autism numbers are actually going up or not, which is [...]

Forbes on “Stars Vs. Science” once again the autism community looks bad

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Forbes Magazine has an article, Stars Vs. Science, From Jenny McCarthy to Tom Cruise, some Hollywood hot shots are leading a war against modern science. The opening paragraph is pretty telling about the tone:

When the medical journal Pediatrics released a consensus report early this year concluding that autistic children do not benefit from special [...]

My “hostile” or “threatening” messages to the Age of Autism editors

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I’m critical of the Age of Autism blog and their so called “editors”. That comes as no news to anyone who has read this blog, I’m sure. But I found an odd bit in David N. Brown’s recent piece, Paul Offit’s Mythical Millions (v. 2), when he noted that Mr. Mark Blaxill and [...]

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