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The IOM and “completely expressed concerns”

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

If you’ve read my previous posts Dr. Bernadine Healy, you know I have some pretty serious concerns about how she represented the way the Institute of Medicine operated when they produced their report on Vaccines and Autism. Those statements were made in interviews with Sharyl Attkisson. Again, if you’ve been reading, you realize that Ms. [...]

Posted in Autism, Bernadine Healy, MMR, Sharyl Attkisson, Thimerosal | 7 Comments »

Really bad blogging by Sharyl Attkisson

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

As I noted before, My fax complaining that Ms. Attkisson missed the big story in the autism/vaccine discussion just about the same time she was posting on exactly that story (the Hornig MMR paper). Ms Atkisson’s blog post is titled New Study Disproves Vaccine/MMR/Autism Link Wow. I didn’t expect to see that from Ms. Attkisson. [...]

Posted in Advocacy, Autism, Blogging, Education, MMR, Mady Hornig, Mark Blaxill, Sharyl Attkisson | 11 Comments »

Another fax for Ms. Couric

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Note: I didn’t do my homework—Ms. Attkisson has discussed the Hornig paper. She manages to do exactly what we would expect: toe the ThoughtfulHouse line. The blog piece by Ms. Attkisson was posted while I was finishing my fax, given the time stamp. As you will read below, I didn’t find Sharyl Attkisson’s recent blog [...]

Posted in Autism, Bernadine Healy, MMR, Mady Hornig, NIH, Rick Rollens, Sharyl Attkisson, Thimerosal | 2 Comments »

Conflicts, then and now

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

There is a lot of talk about conflicts of interest in autism. This is especially true with Dr. Paul Offit’s book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure out now. Consider his letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in May, 2008. Dr. Offit reports being a co-inventor [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Books, Extreme biomed, Paul Offit, Sharyl Attkisson | No Comments »