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Yes, I do think that the hypothetical “vaccine-autism” link distracts us from the key issues of education, services, and understanding about autism. Nonetheless, vaccines were the topic of some of last week’s top posts:
Musings on Camp and Independence
Should I be sending Charlie to camp?
The Dangers of DIY Doctoring
Doctors and patients at odds, and […]
Over at Primary Source in an August 1st post, Sharyl Attkisson discusses the case of Hannah Poling and says that “it’s the first time we know of that the government has ‘conceded’ an autism case in vaccine court.” Attkisson then writes:
But CBS News has learned the government has previously been court-ordered to pay on other […]
The truth, as Mulder and Scully would put it, is out there. I’ll confess to never having watched The X-Files—we did have a TV then (Charlie, and I, had to watch all those videos of Barney, the Teletubbies, and the Wiggles on something)—but the years The X-Files were on (1993-2002) overlapped with the years in […]
No.
TV does not cause autism. Reports of a study about this theory were everywhere in the fall of 2006, after the study’s authors posted their (then yet unpublished paper) on their website. Since then, the study’s been referred to as “just plain stupid” and has been more recently cited here. And it’s also been noted […]
This is perhaps an example of medicine acting despite an absence of what we’d recognize as science, a case of peoples’ fears getting the better of them.
This statement was made in reference to a “well-respected senior scientist” issuing a warning about cell phones being linked to cancer, as discussed in Ars Technica today. Other […]
As a parent, when I see the phrase “nature-nurture,” I get a bit stuck on the “nurture” word, as any suggestion that we didn’t provide the right emotional, social, and so forth “environment” for Charlie and did not provide enough “nurture” can lead a parent to think of the discredited “refrigerator mother” theory of autism. […]
About autism, that is, this blog having the “a-word” in its title. Frequently discussion here veers off into this topic. The power of association being what it is, the more “the v-word” is mentioned, the more the belief/feeling/notion that there’s a link between said word and autism gets etched into the public’s mind. This association […]
In the July 14th Nature is an article about the NIMH chelation study that was put on hold due to safety concerns. NIMH director, Thomas Insel, M.D., says that, due to children being involved, and because the study “carries more than minimal risk and offers no demonstrable benefit to the participants,” it has been referred […]
Could it be something in the water? The answer might seem “yes” if all you read is the headline of an article in today’s Scotsman:
Study reveals water’s role in rare autism
The water in question is not the wet stuff in oceans, lakes or rivers or in pools (where we’re shortly headed to—I told you Charlie […]
By analyzing the genes of 88 families from the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan in which cousins married and had autistic children, researchers have found clues to the neural impairments associated with autism. While researchers found multiple genetic causes for autism in different individuals, a few inherited deletions that have been linked to autism stood […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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