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Archive for the ‘Boyd Haley’ Category

Pity for the Rankins

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Its no secret that Wade and I were once pretty good internet pals. We regularly communicated despite our staunch opposition to the others beliefs regarding vaccines role in autism. That changed however as Wade sunk deeper and deeper into the bad science surrounding autism.

Wade and his wife Sym have recently been the subject of a [...]

OSR#1: Industrial chemical or autism treatment?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The Chicago Tribune has added another chapter to their ongoing series posing difficult questions to the autism alternative medical community. OSR#1: Industrial chemical or autism treatment?, by Trine Tsouderos demonstrates the very low standards the alt-med community is willing to accept, at least when it comes to “supplements”.

OSR#1 is being marketed as a supplement [...]

The Tribune leads the way on autism coverage

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

The story sounds too lurid to be true – ignoring FDA regulations, a retired chemistry professor takes a chemical used to treat toxic waste,  and repackages it as a dietary supplement for disabled children. Welcome to the world of autism quackery.

The story in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune is the latest in a year-long investigation into America’s [...]

Boyd Haley brings the weirdness

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

On 12th Novemeber, Vueweekly featured the second part of an interview with Boyd Haley during which Professor Haley contradicted so many of the basic tenets of the autism/vaccine hypothesis – and also of good ol’ common sense (remember her?) that I was left wondering if he was in fact an Evil Neurodiversity spy sent to [...]

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