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According to an April 22nd Scientific American piece about the case of Hannah Poling—the 9-year-old Georgia girl whose “pre-existing mitochondrial disorder…. was ‘aggravated’ by her shots” according to a concession by the federal government and who was awarded a settlement:
“….. scientifically, from the documents presented in the vaccine court, the Polings did not make a […]
Is there an autism epidemic and why does it matter if there is, or isn’t?
Do you show you’re “aware” with a car magnet, a wristband, a ribbon?
More from last week:
New Findings on Genetic Link Between Autism and Mitochondrial Disease
Researchers at Medical Neurogenetics have found that there may be a genetic link between autism and mitochondrial […]
This past Friday, a government-appointed working group met for the first time to discuss research about the safety of immunizations. Federal health officials said that the meeting is not in response to the recent concession by the government that vaccines aggravated an underlying mitochondrial condition in 9-year-old Hannah Poling and led to symptoms of autism; […]
From an op-ed in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution by neurologist Jon S. Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, with a proposal for more research in the “mitochondrial autism”:
Emerging evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction may not be rare at all among children with autism. In the only population-based study of its kind, Portuguese researchers confirmed that at […]
The latest post about a hypothetical vaccine-autism link by journalist David Kirby argues that the CDC has “lost control of the autism argument.” Kirby suggests that the CDC—a government agency—is “out of touch” with the real concerns of “anxious and alarmed” Americans who are worrying about their children receiving “5 or more vaccines in one […]
“Environmentally-acquired Neuroimmune Disorder” or “E.N.D.”: That was a new term that journalist David Kirby suggested that should be used for autistic children with numerous gastrointestinal problems, over a year ago.
More recently—in writing about the case of Hannah Poling—Kirby has suggested that some type of “vaccine aggravated mitochondrial disorder” is “mimicking” autism. And then there’s the […]
Paul A. Offit, chief of the infectious diseases division of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, writes this about the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the case of Hannah Poling in an op-ed in today’s New York Times:
Now, petitioners need merely propose a biologically plausible mechanism by which a vaccine might cause harm — even […]
In determining what causes autism, you would think that scientific evidence would have the final say. Just in the past year, there has been more and more evidence refuting a link between thimerosal and rising autism rates, and more and more studies pointing to a complex web of genetic factors in autism. And yet, again […]
It might be better to ask what wasn’t discussed about autism in the past two weeks—-below are posts about genetics, the special diet, Hannah Poling, vaccines, music, education, Ashley X, diagnosis, special education, mitochondrial disease. And a racehorse. And a very very personal matter.
Thanks for reading and please keep letting me know what you […]
This is my position on the vaccine-autism issue, as written in Newsweek:
Chew believes that vaccines had nothing to do with her son’s condition and she worries that all the vaccine attention detracts from the more-urgent needs of people with autism, who require intensive behavioral interventions and social services—the kind of help her son has received.
That’s […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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