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Lawsuit against alternative medical practitioners Usman and Rossignal

Friday, March 5th, 2010

A lawsuit has been filed in Chicago claiming that a child has been harmed by the treatments prescribed by Dr. Dan Rossignol and Dr. Anju Usman. This is being reported in a story, Father of 7-year-old autistic boy says treatment harmed son. (also now on the Chicago Tribune’s website) Doctor’s Data has also been named: [...]

Posted in Autism, Chelation, DAN!, Extreme biomed, Legal | 15 Comments »

Age of Autism to Autism Families: Make your children suffer

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Your pretty red house is engulfed in a roaring fire. You keep feeding the fire. Maybe petrol will help. Pour it on. Maybe some oil. Pour that on too. You don’t know. Nobody knows. Some guy you met on the internet tells you he’s a fireman and that the best way to stop a fire [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Autism Myths, Autism's False Prophets, Blogging, Chelation, DAN!, Generation Rescue, badscience | 28 Comments »

The war on Tom Insel and the IACC

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Tom Insel is director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) but he is better known to readers of this blog as the chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. If you read other autism blogs, he’s probably very well known to you, as he has been the target of a concerted attack from [...]

Posted in ARI, Age of Autism, Autism, DAN!, Dan Olmsted, Generation Rescue, IACC, NIH, National Autism Association, Orgs, Safe Minds, TACA, Vaccines | 42 Comments »

More Hot Air about HBOT

Monday, April 6th, 2009

A few weeks ago, BMC Pediatrics published an article that purports to show that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can produce “...significant improvements in overall functioning, receptive language, social interaction, eye contact, and sensory/cognitive awareness..” in autistic children. This study (Rossignol et al, 2009) is billed as a “...multicenter, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.” It’s all that [...]

Posted in DAN!, HBOT, Insurance, Opinion, Science | 22 Comments »