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Why are some autism groups silent on the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act?

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Last week, the Combating Autism Reathorization Act was introduced into the U.S. legislature last week. Many organizations were ready with quick responses: the Autism Science Foundation, ASAN, and Autism Speaks to name a few. How about the organizations which promote the idea that autism is a vaccine injury? Organizations like Generation Rescue, the National Autism [...]

Posted in ASAN, Advocacy, Autism, Autism Science Foundation, Autism Speaks, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, National Autism Association, Orgs | 6 Comments »

Reconsidering the Nature of Autism

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Todd Drezner has a new piece up on the Huffington Post: Reconsidering the Nature of Autism. He starts out by quoting the forward to one of Jenny McCarthy’s books. The forward is by alternative medical practitioner Jerry Kartzinel. Here is what Mr. Drezner wrote in his introduction: “Autism … steals the soul from a child; [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Blogging, Books, Countering Age of Autism, Dan Olmsted, Jenny McCarthy, Jerry Kartzinel, Mark Blaxill, Mercury, Vaccines | 28 Comments »

Age of Autism threaten doctors and also make clear how anti-vaccine they are

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

On a Facebook page entitled ‘Fan photos from Age of Autism’ you will find this (click for bigger): Lets not kid around here, this is a direct threat of violence towards people carrying ‘syringes’ i.e. people who might want to vaccinate children. I have no idea if Jenny McCarthy has any knowledge of this photo [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Jenny McCarthy, Vaccines | 34 Comments »

Jenny McCarthy backs away from vaccines

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

As I blogged recently, Paul Offit was a guest on a US show called The Colbert report. Whilst emailing him about his appearance he mentioned the following: Of interest, one of the show’s staff said that xe had been called by Jenny McCarthy (which I assumed meant Jenny McCarthy’s handlers), who told xyr not to [...]

Posted in Autism, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Vaccines | 55 Comments »