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Dr. Bernadine Healy talks about vaccines and autism…or does she?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Vaccines and autism: publicity of the topic just got a “shot in the arm” this weekend with a story on Dateline. As part of the story, Dr. Bernadine Healy was interviewed. Dr. Healy has called for more research into the proposed vaccine-autism link. She has some good credentials (former head of the National Institutes of [...]

Posted in AAP, Autism, Bernadine Healy, CDC, News, Orgs, Vaccines, Wakefield | 6 Comments »

Generation Rescue: a dishonest autism charity?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Generation Rescue has a long history of promoting bad science. They even have tried their hand at it themselves before, with a phone survey that was so bad it would have earned a college freshman in epidemiology a failing grade. So when they came out with their own “study” of vaccination rates around the world, [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Bernadine Healy, Epidemiology, Generation Rescue, MMR, Thimerosal, Vaccines | 30 Comments »

Generation Rescue: an autism research organization?

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Generation Rescue has been trying to rebrand itself as a “research” based organization over the past year. This is a tough sell given their track record of promiting junk as science. Even if they didn’t keep touting their phone survey it would be difficult to forget it. Rather than write the effort off as bad, [...]

Posted in Autism, Bernadine Healy, Generation Rescue | 4 Comments »

An open letter to Jim Carrey

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Today on The Huffngton Post, actor Jim Carrey posted his thoughts about autism and vaccines. With his very first paragraph it became apparent how little Carrey understood the issues involved: Recently, I was amazed to hear a commentary by CNN’s Campbell Brown on the controversial vaccine issue. After a ruling by the ‘special vaccine court’ [...]

Posted in ADEM, Autism, Autism Myths, Autism Omnibus, Bailey Banks, Bernadine Healy, Hannah Poling, Jim Carrey, MMR, Vaccines | 34 Comments »