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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 »

Why does it matter what happens to Andrew Wakefield?

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

People have been questioning the necessity of these latest revelations about Andrew Wakefield and suggesting that enough is enough or maybe that all this latest round of publicity will do nothing except make him a heroic martyr. This is possible. However, for a number of reasons I really feel it is vitally important that not [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Autism Myths, Autism Treatment Trust, Brian Deer, Generation Rescue, MMR, Measles, National Autism Association, News, Quackery, Safe Minds, This Blog, Vaccines, Wakefield, badscience | 68 Comments »

Bring the crazy – Fecal Transplant

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

There’s a few places around the interweb that you can always count on for a good old dose of craziness. One of those is the Autism Web forums, where the latest trend being discussed is Fecal Transplant. Yeah. Fecal Transplant. It is actually a known therapy to attempt to cure …pseudomembranous colitis (caused by Clostridium [...]

Posted in Autism, Fecal Transplant, badscience | 53 Comments »

Hope and False Hope

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Hope. It’s a wonderful thing, and something that parents of children with autism deserve to have in their lives. Fortunately, science shows that there is very good reason for hope. It shows that children with autism continue to learn and develop throughout their lives. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2765385/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15666341 But false hope is another matter. As we saw [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Myths, Extreme biomed, Science, badscience | 68 Comments »