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So thimerosal’s not the “‘smoking gun‘” linking vaccines to autism, according to David Kirby, whose 2005 book, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy argued that thimerosal—-a mercury-based preservative—-was the culprit behind what he calls the “autism epidemic.”
From an article in today’s Star-Ledger (New Jersey) about an October 23rd […]
For the past two weeks something’s been up with Charlie’s teeth, or so we think. He’s been chewing the string on his sweatshirt and his shirt and poking a finger into his mouth (on the upper right side, I think) and just dabbing at some parts of his teeth with his toothbrush (still brushing the […]
On Newsweek: Three videos with interviews with Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania medical school; Robert Krakow, a New York attorney who’s the father of an autistic son and who is representing more than 75 […]
There’s plenty to debate about regarding autism and the speech about special needs children that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is to give today in Pittsburgh —-her first about public policy—-should set off more. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, she’s to deliver the speech this morning at the morning at the Airport Marriott in Pittsburgh […]
As you’ve probably heard by now, Every Child By Two has been sending an email out requesting people ask Oprah to “dedicate a show to the science behind the question of whether vaccines cause autism.” Some (”an excellent idea”—Kev at Left Brain/Right Brain) are in favor of calling for such. Others are not (”It’s highly […]
Stop Jenny!
Jenny McCarthy and her campaign (if you can call her new McCarthyism that) of vaccine and public health misinformation.
More details here—–Jenny, we hardly knew ye, indeed.
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Jim shows me the New Jersey section of yesterday’s New Jersey Star-Ledger and a headline: A shot against vaccines: At the Statehouse, hundred protest new new requirements. There’s a big photo of a mother and her 20-month-old son; the rally’s purpose was to push for a bill to allow parents to skip some, or […]
No, we don’t “got milk” here; my small family all got sick this week; we’ve always got hope.
Got Autism? (asks PETA)
PETA puts up a billboard in Newark NJ and takes it down.
Is That a Tattoo With……Your Mom’s Cell Number?
Of Safety Tats and other ways to keep a child safe.
McCarthy’s, Er, “Autism” Pole
Jenny […]
Jim noted to me last night that the stock market is now pretty much back to where it was around the time Charlie was born.
Having spent the past ten days writing about vaccines and autism for the Science Blogs Book Club, it’s occurred to me that the whole vaccine-autism issue has been part of, and […]
Three more days to go of the Science Blogs Book Club. Much talk of framing vaccines, framing autism, and more responses from Dr. Offit about his book. And today, I talk about myth, religion, and Jenny McCarthy as a, and perhaps the, false prophet of autism.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, Books, disabilities blog, disability, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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