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Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey write an article concerning autism, vaccinations, and recovery

In light of the recent Hannah Poling decision, in which the federal court conceded that vaccines could have contributed to her autism, we think the tide is finally turning in the direction of parents like us who have been shouting concerns from our rooftops for years. Autism is a debilitating ...

2 Apr 2008, 2:56 pm | click here for more

SCIENTISTS REPORT STRONG EVIDENCE OF IMMUNE AND PROTEIN ALTERATIONS IN BLOOD SAMPLES OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM, RAISING HO...

May 5, 2005 (BOSTON, Mass.) " Offering a new and exciting direction in the effort to develop a diagnostic test for autism in infancy, scientists from the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute presented new evidence today indicating that components of the immune system and proteins and metabolites found ...

14 Apr 2006, 11:19 pm | click here for more

Savage on Media Matters : "They have no place in America"

On the July 21 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage repeatedly attacked Media Matters for America, calling the group a "Stalinist," "anti-family," "illegitimate, dangerous fascist group()," and asserted that Media Matters "ha(s) no place in America." His comments came after ...

22 Jul 2008, 6:44 pm | click here for more

Why I Never Use About.Com, And Don't Recommend It

About.com  claims to be authoritative: Exclusive to About.com, over 600 expert "Guides" steer About.com's     content - sharing their passions, expertise and how-to information with visitors     every day. In this post, Lisa Jo Rudy's "expert" lumps together all kinds of treatments for autism, ...

29 Nov 2007, 4:24 pm | click here for more

Asperger syndrome

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17 Dec 2007, 9:27 pm | click here for more

Asperger syndrome

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17 Dec 2007, 9:27 pm | click here for more

Conflicts of Interest: Real and Imagined

One of the favorite refrains of the mercury militia is that the mountains of scientific findings that undermine the thimerosal/vaccines and autism hypothesis are all fatally flawed by conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry. The National Autism Association is particularly ...

14 Sep 2007, 4:55 pm | click here for more

Starting Something

Sometimes, you start something and it captures part of a mood/vogue and whilst zeitgeist might be too strong a word, there is an obvious and immediate resonance with people. I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of two such things. One was the Autism Hub. The other was a simple video of Meg I ...

26 Aug 2007, 1:25 am | click here for more

The Politics of Autism

April is Autism Awareness Month and I have chosen to make folks aware of the complexities and conundrums surrounding its politics, which are replete with divisions, debates, and diatribes fueled by self-advocates, special interests, activists, militants, and conspiracy theorists. The two main ...

23 Apr 2007, 8:04 am | click here for more

The Shape Of An Elephant

Remember this old Bhuddist parable? Five blind men of Savatthi are all describing an elephant. The problem is that one grabs the tail, the other a leg, the other the side, the other an ear and the fifth, the tusk. Each, remaining blindfolded, seeks to articulate the attributes of an elephant. The one ...

17 May 2006, 7:44 am | click here for more

Emerging Milestones

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14 Jul 2008, 8:54 am | click here for more

hotrobert: Barack obama supports california gay/same sex wedding

So why are you hearing more about autism? According to Huliq News in a June 29th piece mentioning The Boy in the Window, a book by 66-year-old Barbara Coppo, whose autistic son, Kenny, is 29 years old, this is why: Perhaps we are hearing more about autism in the news because there ...

8 Jul 2008, 5:12 am | click here for more

Conspiracy Theory-Based Medicine

Conspiracy Theory-Based Medicine On Slate, Arthur Allen debunks the woo of the anti-vaccination nutwads who believe thimerosal causes autism: ...Four perfectly good studies comparing large populations of kids have showed that thimerosal did not cause the increased reporting of autism. ...

19 Jun 2007, 8:13 am | click here for more

Autism vs features of autism

In sum, DVIC has concluded that the facts of this case meet the statutory criteria for demonstrating that the vaccinations CHILD received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as ...

14 Mar 2008, 4:47 am | click here for more

Autism, neurodiversity, and parenting

After over three years of blogging about autism, I’ve finally found the right words to express my feelings, as a parent, about autism and neurodiversity. I admire and appreciate the important and necessary work of Jim Sinclair for both autism, and in general for people with ...

18 Jul 2008, 10:50 am | click here for more

A view from the middle

I had lunch with an old friend recently, and the topic of conversation wound its way to autism. I, of course, am the parent of an autistic son. As it turns out, his nephew is also autistic. He wanted to understand autism, and I wanted to help him understand. But I didn’t know where ...

2 Apr 2008, 10:15 pm | click here for more

TV Censorship and the Mercury-Autism Question

"Will a (fictional) TV show be canceled because it features an attorney who successfully argues that a mercury-containing flu vaccine caused autism in one kid?" I found this article quite interesting and think it was very well written. I wanted to share. (A personal note: As someone who's recovering ...

29 Jan 2008, 11:50 am | click here for more

The Help Groups Autism Awareness Day with Mayor Antonio R Villaraigosa and LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Delivers...

(State News and Information) On April 9th declared The Help Group Autism Awareness Day by the State of California and the City of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky joined The Help Group httpwwwthehelpgrouporg in recognizing National Autism ...

19 Apr 2008, 1:29 am | click here for more

This is why Michael Savage is the most hated conservative in America.

I'm embarassed that this guy is on our side. He's got more in common with the Krazy Kos Kids than conservatives. Things like this are why I'm ashamed of him. For whatever reason, Michael Savage decided that he needed to attack the autism epidemic, saying some pretty inflammatory, insulting, ...

21 Jul 2008, 9:14 pm | click here for more

National Autistic Society

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30 Aug 2006, 4:19 am | click here for more

MAYBE RITALIN CAUSES AUTISM:

Time to Vaccinate a Panic (John Luik, 18 May 2006, Tech Central Station) A 2000 survey in Pediatrics reported that 25% of parents had serious concerns about the vaccines given to their children. And significant numbers refused to vaccinate their children, with predictably unfortunate consequences. In ...

18 May 2006, 12:56 pm | click here for more

If Savage was smearing only misdiagnoses of autism, why did he previously call autism itself a "phony disease"?

A rebroadcast of The Savage Nation that aired on the program July 9 further undermines Michael Savage's claim that he was referring on July 16 only to misdiagnoses of autism, and not to the disease itself, when he characterized autism as "(a) fraud, a racket." During the rebroadcast, ...

23 Jul 2008, 5:25 pm | click here for more

Why investigating Wakefield matters

I occasionally get emails or blog comments along the general lines of: Why do you do this? These people (Wakefield, DAN , whomever) are trying to help autistic kids! The (il)logic train is very simple to these people: X listened to their ideas about vaccines and autism, X tries out never-seen-before-treatments ...

31 Jul 2007, 9:30 pm | click here for more

Unstrange Minds

Unstrange Minds is a book from George Washington University Professor of Anthropology – and Dad to Isabel, his autistic daughter, Roy Richard Grinker about autism, its history as a diagnosis and how it exists as a cultural phenomenon in other (non-Westernised) countries. Epidemic The first ...

17 Dec 2006, 12:05 am | click here for more

David Kirby: Is Autism Declining?

For quite some time, the American government, health establishment and mainstream media have repeated the mantra that mercury containing vaccines were eliminated "several years ago," yet the number of autism cases continues to climb - the inference being that injecting organic mercury into ...

12 Jul 2007, 2:04 am | click here for more

Vaccines, Autism and the Concession

1) Concession Report (This document has been removed due to the possibility of it being illegally obtained). If people really wish to read the document for themselves it can be founf here, at the Huffington post 2) Zimmerman Case Study When David Kirby wrote his piece in the Huffington Post, I’ll admit ...

1 Mar 2008, 1:57 am | click here for more

Worst Arguments

Two weeks ago I posted Left Brain Right Brain closes – how the actions of John Best (who sometimes posts as Fore Sam) had forced Kevin Leitch to close his blog to protect his family. Predictably, John Best appeared in the comments to promote his pseudoscientific view that autism is caused by ...

29 Oct 2007, 1:01 am | click here for more

The power of pop culture (redux)

A lot is being said about the pilot episode of ABC's new legal drama Eli Stone, in which the title character successfully sues a vaccine manufacturer on behalf of a family who believes their son's autism was caused by the vaccine (or, more accurately, an extra substance in the vaccine). Instead ...

29 Jan 2008, 2:56 pm | click here for more

An Open Letter To The Poling’s

Dear Poling family, Let me first start by saying that your little girl is beautiful. I am father to two girls (as well as one boy, young man now actually) so I know how great it is to have such wonderful little people around. I read Jon Poling’s commentary in the AJC and I have to say that I was very ...

12 Apr 2008, 2:42 am | click here for more

Autism Society of America and Foothill Autism Alliance Join Forces to Provide Needed Resources to the Autism Community

(Parenting News and Information) The Autism Society of America ASA and Foothill Autism Alliance Inc FAA have formed a collaborative relationship to provide the very best autismrelated resources to help parents professionals and individuals on the autism spectrum Our goal is ...

18 Apr 2008, 1:49 am | click here for more

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