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Amanda Peet says a sorta sorry. While writing “”I believe in my heart that my use of the word ‘parasites’ was mean and divisive’” in a letter on the Cookie magazine website, she also says:
“[T]here is no association between autism and vaccines. How many more studies do we need to conduct on vaccines, before we […]
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 […]
I’m not talking about the ongoing threat to one’s waistline from eating crispy post-drenching-in hot-oil -puds, though that’s certainly a major problem. I’m talking about the ubiquity of those artery-clogging strips in many a restaurant (especially if it’s a “family” restaurant), packaged in huge bags filling a goodly portion of the freezer case and, of […]
About a year and a half ago, two reporters debated about thimerosal, vaccines and autism. This was back in January of 2007; the reporters were David Kirby and Arthur Allen.
In the past two months, two actresses—Amanda Peet and Jenny McCarthy have made statements to various media sources about vaccines and what they do and what […]
Using four different aliases, Judith Leekin adopted 11 children—some with autism and other disabilities—-between 1988 and 1996 in New York City and moved them to Florida in 1998. She received subsidies totaling over $1.68 million for the children’s care. Nine of the children (with “mental” and physical disablities) are now in Florida state custody […]
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 […]
Some aspects of autism do run in families, according to a new study about how parents of autistic children process facial expressions. As noted in today’s Science Daily, neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs of the California Institute of Technology and psychiatrist Joe Piven at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied 42 parents of autistic […]
Charlie often looks out of the corners of his eyes and looks in the distance when someone’s talking to him. Over time, I’ve learned that this does not mean that he’s not paying attention or listening, and a new study suggests that passive, observational learning imprints itself on the brain just like active learning. Always […]
A 12-year-old autistic boy, Ben Haslam will be without a school by the end of the week and could be taken into care—into custody—by the Local Education Authority (LEA) in Bedfordshire, UK. The Haslams tried to get Ben into one school; the LEA protested; the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) ruled in […]
“What Tim eventually said….was that he didn’t want to go to school because he thought the school was trying to kill him.”
John Miller, a podiatrist in Allegany, N.Y, says this about his 12-year-old son, who has Asperger Syndrome, and who was, according to a July 15th New York Times article, held down prone on the […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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