About Kathleen Seidel
Today’s Concord Monitor profiles Kathleen Seidel, who maintains the Neurodiversity.com website and who recently quashed a subpoena delivered to her by vaccine litigation lawyer Clifford Shoemaker. According to the article (and these are my sentiments exactly):
Tags: alternative medicine, asd, asperger, autism, legal, mercury, neurodiversity, parents, pdd-nos, subpoena, vaccine, wooSeidel believes that the propagation of the theory causes many harms: It traumatizes parents, who believe their children have been poisoned and must be fixed; it harms children, who are subjected to medically unnecessary treatments designed to remove mercury from their bodies; it discourages vaccination, leaving children vulnerable to deadly diseases; and it distracts autism activists and researchers from the work she feels is most important.
“There’s been a lot of energy, a lot of attention that been focused in an area that’s not going to help disabled kids,” Seidel said.
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7 opinions for About Kathleen Seidel
Another Voice
Apr 27, 2008 at 12:25 pm
This may be a first! The motion of an attorney quashed by a librarian. How nice!
Kathleen Seidel
Apr 27, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Thanks, Kristina!
Joseph
Apr 27, 2008 at 1:31 pm
That was a good article. The part where the Geiers try to rationalize Kathleen’s findings is interesting. Are they actually suggesting that it’s a common practice in science for papers to be nearly identical to other papers with some wording modified a bit here and there? Dr. DeStefano of the CDC (one of the authors of the draft that was apparently plagiarized) didn’t seem to think so. Even the Geiers’ apparent self-plagiarism is questionable. In scientific misconduct terminology, that is known as “salami publications.”
In essense, it would seem that the Geiers are not being truthful (big shocker!)
Bonnie Sayers
Apr 27, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I agree 100% and liked the story, especially that one powerful paragraph. She said it so well.
Ms. Clark
Apr 27, 2008 at 3:39 pm
The Geiers even copied data from the DeStefano paper and called it their own new (curiously identical) data. And they are claiming that the IRB list was preliminary, that still doesn’t explain the utterly bizarre (one might say “incestuous”) choice of people for the IRB and this “preliminary” IRB was formed after they had begun the experiment on the kids.
Oh the tangled webs they weave….
Now it’s time for Newsweek and USA Today and NBC to profile Kathleen and her work. Maybe one of those outfits would mention that Dr. Geier is being investigated by the Maryland medical board.
I was especially happy to see this reporter draw that very short line from Kathleen being persecuted by Clifford Shoemaker of Vienna, Virginian, and the case of Hannah Poling supposed vaccine induced supposed autism (encephalopathy from a mitochondrial disorder caused autistic-like symptoms). Since Cliffy is in the middle of both scenarios. He’s the generator of the persecution and the lawyer for the Polings.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Apr 27, 2008 at 3:55 pm
bizarre—-”incestuous”—-nepotistic if that’s a word—–
Regan
Apr 29, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Kathleen summed the situation up beautifully.
As for that IRB, does it seem odd that some of the same folks who stump about conflicts of interest for mainstream scientists, do not find the composition of this Board completely unacceptable for objective review?
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