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Mitochondrial Disease and Autism: Linked?

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Mitochondrial disease and autism. I don’t read about it as much as during the peak of the Hannah Poling story, but it is a big topic. Emily Willingham at Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism has put together an excellent post on the subject. Here’s the first paragraph: Hannah Poling’s family entered the national spotlight when [...]

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Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

A recent paper from the MIND Institute, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) entitled Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism caused a bit of a stir. One which is far beyond what is supported by the paper’s conclusions or data, I will add. The study is very small: 10 autistic children and 10 [...]

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Commentary on Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

I recently wrote about the paper Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism by the MIND Institute. It is difficult to write about the topic of mitochondrial dysfunction and mitochondrial disorders and autism without discussing vaccines. Even the Simons Foundation blog mentioned vaccines in their treatment of the paper, even though the paper makes no comments about vaccines. [...]

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The Huffington Post: Featuring bad science, facile reasoning since 2005

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

That’s the title of a new blog post by Seth Mnookin, author of “The Panic Virus“. The title is spot on (and could be the the title of a book in its own right): The Huffington Post: Featuring bad science, facile reasoning since 2005. Seth Mnookin took a look at unscientific thinking that can lead [...]

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