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Archive for the ‘CDC’ Category

H1N1 really does kill people

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Its always a bit of a dilemma when writing an entry that doesn’t really touch on autism at all. But I have become convinced that the population beyond the autistic and autism community need to know that most of us within these communities do not support the know nothing anti-science, anti-medicine and most of all, [...]

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 [...]

A vaccinated vs unvaccinated study

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

For as long as I can recall, this has been one of the clarion calls of the autism/antivaccine/pro-disease groups – that the only way to know if vaccines cause autism is to do a ‘simple’ study of vaccinated vs unvaccinated populations. Indeed, Generation Rescue carried out an ill-fated phone survey that in reality meant absolutely [...]

David Kirby on mitochondral autism

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Over the last few months David Kirby has been talking about a new paper that would be forthcoming that would postulate a link between autism and vaccines via Mitochondrial disease. He claimed to have some inside knowledge of this due to interviewing one of the co-authors. That co-author was Richard Kelley and that paper has [...]

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