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2011 – The Last Year For ARI’s DAN! Doctors

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

As late as just a few months ago, The Autism Research Institute (ARI), promoted their upcoming Fall 2010 Defeat Autism Now! conference in a monthly newsletter. Note the name of the conference: “Fall 2010 ARI/Defeat Autism Now! Conference” http://www.ariconference.com/enews/enewsletter_201010.html Now look at ARI’s promotion of their Spring 2011 conference. “Spring 2011 ARI Conference (formerly known [...]

Posted in ARI, DAN!, Extreme biomed, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy | 28 Comments »

Safeminds defends treatments the FDA deemed “dangerously misleading”

Monday, October 18th, 2010

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that they had sent warning letters to eight groups who were promoting chelation products without prescriptions and with unproven claims of efficacy. Chelation is a mainstay of many alternative medical practitions, especially in autism. There is a hypothesis that autism is caused by mercury poisoning. [...]

Posted in ARI, Autism, Chelation, DAN!, Extreme biomed, Mercury, Safe Minds, Thimerosal | 39 Comments »

Nature Fubar

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Nature, the usually reputable Science magazine have launched a Scitable Autism section and with it screwed up their usual impeccable attention to detail. Who for example thought it necessary to put: Determining the cause of — and the cure for — autism is crucial for our society I wonder. And who thought it necessary to [...]

Posted in ARI, Autism, Autism Myths, DAN!, badscience | 8 Comments »

Listen to parents…except when they say things you don’t want to hear

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

How many times do we hear, “Listen to the parents” on medical issues involving their autistic kids? Usually this comes from alternative medical groups who don’t have the science to back up the safety and efficacy of their therapies. What happens when a parent disagrees with these groups? In Lawsuit against alternative medical practitioners Usman [...]

Posted in ARI, Autism, Chelation, DAN!, Extreme biomed, Legal, Mercury, Orgs | 4 Comments »