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Archive for the ‘Safe Minds’ Category

A Positive Association found between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination uptake across the U.S. Population

Friday, July 8th, 2011

The title for this article should have a question mark, “A Positive Association found between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination uptake across the U.S. Population?”. The paper’s faults have already been discussed, but I was unable to sleep earlier this week and I decided to graph some of the data. For some reason, even this [...]

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; [...]

Why does it matter what happens to Andrew Wakefield?

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

People have been questioning the necessity of these latest revelations about Andrew Wakefield and suggesting that enough is enough or maybe that all this latest round of publicity will do nothing except make him a heroic martyr. This is possible. However, for a number of reasons I really feel it is vitally important that not [...]

Book Sales: The Age of Autism and Callous Disregard

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

I tapped my source one last time for book sales figures for “The Age of Autism” and “Callous Disregard”. The Age of Autism was written by Mark Blaxill (board member of SafeMinds and one of the three principle editors of the blog, Age of Autism) and Dan Olmsted (former UPI editor, principle editor and, from [...]

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