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Today’s MinnPost.com reports that “First generation U.S.-born Somali-speaking children in Minneapolis schools are disproportionately identified as having autism.” There are 15,000 to 40,000 Somalis living in Minnesota, a 2001 state health department study reports. According to the Minnesota Department of Education:
in the Minneapolis’ early childhood and kindergarten programs, more than 12 percent of the students […]
Charlie was supposed to go the dentist yesterday morning but I had to reschedule his appointment to August as I was at the BlogHer conference. And I’ll confess, I felt a sense of (guilty?) relief at knowing that Charlie’s next date with the dentist chair would be postponed a bit more. We’ve been slack about […]
As the July 28th American Medical News notes, Vaccine-autism link unsupported by science, but theory lives on. Victoria Stagg Elliott reports on the Autism One conference that was held last May in Chicago; not only were many of the conference sessions about immunization issues, but, even when these were not the main focus, “the […]
So the BBC news reports that I, parent of an autistic child, am an “infection risk,” from a study in the July 1st Brain, Behavior and Immunity on Parental caregivers of children with developmental disabilities mount a poor antibody response to pneumococcal vaccination.”
(Does that mean autism parents are parasites?)
30 parents of children with developmental disabilities […]
David Kirby’s latest Huffington Post post is entitled Amanda Peet vs. the Medical Establishment. Towards the end, he writes:
I am not a parent, and I am not anti-vaccine. But if I were going to listen to experts on this subject, I would be more likely to consult some of these people, rather than a well-meaning […]
Writer Ann Bauer’s adult son is autistic and, in an article in today’s Washington Post, she writes about the question that are always just under the surface of my conscious thoughts:
What happens to Charlie after Jim and I are not here?
Bauer, the author of the novel A World Ride Up the Cupboards, has described a […]
Will there be a run on this in the wake of this sort of testimony:
“This is the stuff that really made Evan excrete yeast and start talking more.”
This is “the stuff”: Threelac Original Defense Probiotic.
This is the source.
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A July 18th editorial by conservative thinker Thomas Sowell about the false diagnosis of autism—–it’s entitled “Rush to diagnose autism causes more harm than good“—-responds to some recently announced techniques to diagnose autism earlier in children. Sowell criticizes what he sees as the over-diagnosis of autism in young children who are really late talkers […]
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 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 […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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