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- Katie Wright demonstrates AoA mentalityOver at the Clown Blog, Katie Wright pens a sulky screed targeting Peter Bearman. Lets go through it. Dr. Peter Bearman, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, recently released a research paper alleging that half of the meteoric rise in AS...
- Florida access to service bill morphed into vaccine billA recent story in the Miami New Times caught my eye recently. The story is about how a wealthy Florida chiropractor was attempting to gain access to Florida Department of Health records so that Mark and David Geier could use them for vaccine/autism r...
- Incidence of autism in BerkshireA Reading Borough Council report has shown that the incidence of autism in a borough of Reading, Tilehurst has increased over a period of eight years (2000 – 2008) from 68 to 186, more than doubling. Lets put these figures in context of a few t...
- Crist backer Gary Kompothecras bullies Florida health officialsCrist backer Gary Kompothecras bullies Florida health officials, a story in the Miami New Times, discusses how a wealthy man is attempting to exert influence to get Dr. Mark and Mr. David Geier access to Florida Department of Health records. Here are...
- The Age of Autism before thimerosalDan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill have written a book, The Age of Autism. It expands on Mr. Olmsted’s UPI series of the same name and uses the same logic: build a narrative that links mercury to illnesses and claim this as proof that mercury is the...
- Donald Triplett – Autism’s Patient Zeroon Sep 26, 2010 in Age of Autism Autism Dan Olmsted Donald Triplett Ginger Taylor Hannah Poling Mark BlaxillDonald Triplett is (for he is still alive) Kanner’s Case 1. Recently the story in a lovely portrait in The Atlantic, Donald has also had the sad misfortune to slowly but inexorably become a poster child for the autism/anti-vaccine movement. As...
- Barbara Loe Fisher discusses her failed lawsuit against Paul Offit and Amy WallaceAmy Wallace wrote an article on the vaccine/autism discussion entitled An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All. In it she quotes both Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Barbara Loe Fi...
- Safeminds comments on the latest thimerosal-autism studyon Sep 20, 2010 in Autism Autism Epidemic Generation Rescue Mercury National Autism Association Orgs Safe Minds Science Thimerosal VaccinesSafeMinds is an organization which has long promoted the idea that thimerosal caused an autism epidemic. They may be the single greatest force that got the idea into the public’s eye, and got research funding focused on looking at the question.
- Age of Autism – the book – sales figuresDeep in the heart of the Big Pharma Wackosphere, shadowy figures, twisted into parodies of humanity by their greed, shuffled to and fro. They all carried the stain of Big Pharma – a tattoo of Darth Offit – on the back of their left hand s...
- Autism researchers want your input: Autism and the Internet at UCLAResearchers at UCLA are interested in your input on a survey of Autism and the Internet. The study has IRB approval and the description from their site is below: You are asked by Dr. Patricia Greenfield, of the Department of Psychology at the Univers...
- A busy week in vaccine-injury news: the Cedillo appealon Sep 3, 2010 in Autism Omnibus Legal MMR Mady Hornig Measles News Omnibus Experts PLoS Science Vaccines WakefieldThe past week has had three somewhat major news events in the world of vaccine injury: the denial of the Cedillo appeal, the award of damages in the UK for an MMR case and the damages award in the Hannah Poling case. I thought I would write about th...
- Damages awarded in the Poling case?A document has recently been posted the Court of Federal Claims website, describing an award in a vaccine injury case. The document is redacted, but the following paragraph indicates to me that this involves the case of Hannah Poling: Respondent h...
- A reminder for neurodiversityIts been awhile since I blogged about neurodiversity and why it matters to me as a concept. Two recent events in my own life has made me more aware of that than usual. In the first event, which concerns me directly, I have had to have a change in t...
- MMR vaccine damaged manon Aug 30, 2010 in Autism Autism Myths Epidemiology Legal MMR Mike Fitzpatrick Polly Tommey Science Vaccines Wakefield badscienceJackie Fletcher is well known to many – she routinely insists the MMR jab is dangerous despite reams of evidence to the contrary. However, a panel in the UK has found that her son, Robert, was damaged by the MMR vaccine he was administered. I...
- Cedillo appeal deniedon Aug 27, 2010 in AutismIn conclusion, we have carefully reviewed the decision of the Special Master and we find that it is rationally supported by the evidence, well-articulated, and reason-able. We therefore affirm the denial of the Cedillos’ petition for compensati...
- Quick Q&A with APC study lead authorI recently blogged about a study that linked APC dysfunction with autism and learning disability. Two questions interested me so I wrote to lead author Michele Jacob to ask them. Hi Dr Jacob, My name is Kevin Leitch, I own and edit a popular blo...
- Autism and learning disabilities connected to APC protein‘What the hell does that mean?’ I hear you cry. OK, so the way I understand it, APC is a protien which plays an important role in helping synapses grow properly. If synapses – which are the bits that transfer data from neuron to n...
- We will support your foundationsI read a terrible, terrifying blog post post yesterday from Kim Stagliano on the Huffington Post. In it she describes how her daughter has suffered abuse at the hands of a support worker. The story is also coverered by the Connecticut Times. Police...
- Review of the Introduction of Age of Autism – the book.on Aug 23, 2010 in Age of Autism Autism Autism Books Books Dan Olmsted Mark Blaxill Mercury Thimerosal Vaccines badscienceSo begins the Olmsted/Blaxill upcoming book ‘Age of Autism’. ...instead of taking Kanner’s word for it, [we decided] to learn about these previously anonymous families ourselves. We took clues from his extensive case descriptions...
- LBRB on FacebookI finally got around to creating a ‘Fan’ page on Facebook for LBRB as an alternative to the Networked Blog. I do understand theres an unofficial page floating around but please consider this the official LBRB page. Also please take the...