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Vaccinated Children Not at Higher Risk of Infections or Allergic Diseases, Study Suggests

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Seems German science has asked and answered the question everyone who believes vaccines damage the immune system wanted answering: Do vaccinations put too much strain on or weaken children’s immune systems? Roma Schmitz and her colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute investigate exactly this research question in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. Their [...]

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California’s Specific Learning Disabilities Counter Epidemic

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

The U.S. and California Departments of Education recently released special education data (child counts) for the 2008-2009 school year. A particular focus in the media has been a tripling of the number of students who wear a special education label of “autism” in California. Needless to say, some probably see this as confirmation of an [...]

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Sloppy science – a perfect example of how the anti-vaccine crowd will listen to anything

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Both Age of Autism and David Kirby have recently reported on a new review paper with Age of Autism describing it as ‘pretty interesting’ and David repeating a part of the abstract: Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination. So, should we all in the skeptic camp [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Myths, Geier, MMR, Measles, Mercury, News, Science, Thimerosal, Vaccines, Wakefield, badscience | 252 Comments »

GI and autism studies ‘none of these trials appeared to be of high quality’

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

A new paper is due out soon looking at the available literature on GI and autism. The significance of the association between many gastrointestinal (GI) pathologies and autism has yet to be discovered. The aim of the present study was to review available evidence documenting any link between autism and GI histopathology in children I’ve [...]

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