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Autism Vox

April 27th, 2008

Hope Starts With Acceptance

Cure or acceptance?
Does one strive to do everything one can to cure, heal, recover a child from autism with the goal of the child “losing” her or his diagnosis? Or, does one learn to accept that one’s child is different, disabled, autistic?
Parents and others in the autism community tend to align themselves with one “side” […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 30 comments

April 25th, 2008

Politicking, Pandering, and Paranoia

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 […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 42 comments

April 23rd, 2008

Obama and Clinton, Autism and Disability

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 […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 18 comments

April 22nd, 2008

Another Way to Access the Candidates: The Vaccine-Autism Question

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 […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 28 comments

March 2nd, 2008

This and Last’s Weeks Top Posts

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 […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2008

Hillary and Autism

Writing about unstoppable Obama in the February 14th Huffington Post, writer Barbara Ehrenreich tries to describe his “mysterious and irrational” appeal: “He’s a ‘rock star,’ all flash and no substance, tending dangerously, according to the New York Times’ Paul Krugman, to a ‘cult of personality.’” If he “supposedly goes for the id,” Hillary Rodham Clinton […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 36 comments

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