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Thoughtful House changes name and focus

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Thoughtful House. The name is probably indelibly linked to Andrew Wakefield. Under his tenure there as director, Thoughtful House took on a focus of Dr. Wakefield: vaccines, the gut-brain connection and the like. The focus was strong, as shown by their early conferences. The speaker list for the first conference was described by Mr. Wakefield [...]

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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 »

Laura Hewitson has left the University of Pittsburgh

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Laura Hewitson is the lead researcher on a series of studies on comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated macaque monkeys. This work became public first in the 2008 IMFAR conference. At that time and since, the work from these studies has been strongly criticized. Dr. David Gorski of Science Based Medicine discussed those abstracts. It is very [...]

Posted in IMFAR, Laura Hewitson, Science, Thoughtful House, Vaccines | 111 Comments »

The genie is out of the bottle. Part II – more genies, more bottles

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Was it any surprise that the journal that published the recent Hewitson stinker did so? Not really. Straight from the opening lines of the Editorial the direction this journals ‘science’ would take was clear: This issue of Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis is fully devoted to the issues of autism. The idea for this topic came from [...]

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