To many of us who have been following the online ‘careers’ of the various people and factions behind Age of ‘Autism’ for many years (at least 7 in my case) this will be no surprise but it still needs pointing out once more:
The Age of ‘Autism’ blog is a repository of and a flag waver [...]
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Over at AoA, Kent Heckenlively must be making the rest of the crew nervoous. Maybe you haven’t read his brand new idea for making the ‘green our vaccines’ initiative a political…um…’force’. To whit:
We’re not going to get anywhere with our current legal system because everything gets funneled into Vaccine Court. [...]
Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy, Andrew Wakefield…what do these people have in common? They have all helped promote fear of vaccines—especially the Measles/MumpsRubella (MMR) vaccine—by claiming there is evidence vaccines cause autism.
To be fair, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy relatively new to the scene, unlike Dr. Wakefield, whose flawed research really fueled the fear. [...]
In something of a jaw-on-chest admission, David has finally admitted that thimerosal does not cause autism:
David Kirby, a journalist and author of “Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy,” said he believed that thimerosal, which still exists in trace amounts in some childhood vaccines, was no longer the “smoking [...]
