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MMR vaccine damaged man

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Jackie Fletcher is well known to many – she routinely insists the MMR jab is dangerous despite reams of evidence to the contrary. However, a panel in the UK has found that her son, Robert, was damaged by the MMR vaccine he was administered. I nearly didn’t blog about this. Why? Well, this blogs predominant [...]

Polly Tommey poses as advocate for autistic adults

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Polly Tommey is in the news again with this piece in the Guardian, Attention-grabbing antics for autism. It concerns her latest poster campaign, timed to coincide with the start of the General Election. I have left the following comment. I have followed Ms Tommey’s attempts to present herself as a mainstream autism advocate for some [...]

John Stone/Polly Tommey claim oversight

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

The first official sounding of the death knell for the ‘hidden horde’ hypothesis of autism (it must be vaccines because there aren’t 1 in 160/150/100 adult autistics) was recently sounded (as reported by Anthony) when an NHS study announced that the rate of autism amongst adults was 1% – exactly the same as for kids. [...]

Time for a cordon sanitaire?

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

The politics of autism are enmeshed in the debate about vaccine safety over the past ten years, and will take years to be disentangled. In the UK things might be changing, but in the US high profile celebrities have given a late push to fears that by now should be consigned to history. The BMJ [...]

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