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Considering how many pressing issues there are to talk regarding children and adults—education, employment, housing, to name a very few—-why do we keep getting stuck talking about the hypothetical claim of a link between vaccines and autism?
Here’s some thoughts towards why the whole issue seems to have devolved into something approaching paranoia, not to mention […]
Right now (afternoon of April 23, Wednesday) over at Science Blogs there’s a number of posts about Barack Obama’s statement at a Monday rally in Pennsylvnia that evidence linking vaccines and autism was “inconclusive” and that further research is needed. (It’s also pointed out that Hillary Clinton has also embraced “anti-vaccination woo”.)
While the candidates’ views […]
The Pennsylvania Primary is today, with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama battling it out. I’ve noted the candidates’ autism plans in a previous post. Today’s Washington Post hones in on another way to consider the candidates, the alleged link between vaccines and autism. Back in February, Senator John McCain linked the rise in autism […]
It’s April, it’s Autism Awareness Month, and last week saw the inaugural World Autism Day on April 2nd, and there were a whole lot of autism stories in the news——and there’s still three more weeks to go.
This April has some added significance for me: It’s Charlie’s last month of being 10 years old as his […]
The theory linking autism to a vaccine or something in vaccines (such as the mercury-based preservative thimerosal) has a certain simple elegance: A young child is developing normally. The child gets a vaccine. “Overnight,” the child changes dramatically, perhaps losing speech, having terrible gastrointestinal problems, lining up objects, spinning, flapping her or his hands, not […]
A mother writes about getting a call from the Centers for Disease Control about her daughter’s vaccinations. Her response leads to a pause at the other end of the line: What did she say……some strongly worded statement about a link between vaccines and autism?
What this mother—-who is writer Peggy Orenstein in the March 23rd New […]
Since last week—last Thursday to be precise, when the parents of Hannah Poling Dr. Jon Poling and Terry Poling, held a news conference with their lawyer, Cliff Shoemaker, close by—the autism community has been discussing and debating just what the government said in its concession and what it did not. A recent post by Kev […]
The New York Times says that Senator John McCain’s statement about there being “‘there’s strong evidence” linking thimerosal for the increase in diagnoses of autism is “good politics”:
…the parent groups raising concerns about the dangers of vaccines have not wavered in their conviction, and if anything have become more skeptical of government pronouncements on the […]
Many in the autism community (as noted here and here), and many scientists (here and here, and here, and also here, for starters), have spoken out about Senator John McCain’s saying that “‘there’s strong evidence” linking thimerosal for the increase in diagnoses of autism in the US—-and political commentators have also been asking, what […]
Google and genius; the meaning of MR and the meaning of intelligence; a new name for autism from David Kirby; an online town meeting for the NYU Child Study Center; a little presidential candidate politicking…….
Parents Don’t Cause Autism
And neither do vaccines or something in vaccines.
Myth, Science, and Autism: A Message from the AAP
Well aware […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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