Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 27, 2009, 3:40 am
UPDATE: See end of this comment for Dr. Novella's reply Dear Dr. Novella I am a parent of a 13 year old boy with Autistic Disorder. I also have a blog site on which I commented unfavorably on you...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 25, 2009, 7:27 am
In an exchange at About.com: Autism AutismNewsBeat, the host of a blog which claims to serve as an evidence based autism resource for journalists, (it is really more of an ideologically driven Neurod...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 25, 2009, 4:35 am
My son Conor is 13 and has a diagnosis of Autistic Disorder. He is assessed with profound developmental delays. His initial diagnosis of PDD-NOS at age 2 was changed to Autistic Disorder a short ti...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 24, 2009, 4:37 am
Yup Kevin Leitch opposes the interests and well being of autistic children.That is the logical conclusion of the false dichotomy Kevin Leitch creates when he accuses Bob Wright of opposing the interes...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 23, 2009, 7:29 pm
Conor returned to the Circle Place, the Nashwaaksis Commons, today for the first time in almost two years. He used to love going to the Circle Place and then he just stopped and refused to go back. T...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 22, 2009, 11:49 am
"The protesters are lucky. They're well off enough, healthy enough, to do it. I wish my grandson were able to join them." Bob Wright, New York Post, November 19, 2009 Bob Wright of Autism Speaks...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 22, 2009, 2:30 am
Apparently the Chicago Tribune is of the view that the only real concern facing autistic children and their families is the risks faced by treatments, and DAN doctors in particular. In two very super...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 21, 2009, 10:46 am
For the most part the article Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science goes over old ground in attacking alternative autism therapies. At times it appears that the...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 19, 2009, 2:00 am
In a press release from PR Newswire, a New Jersey based business oriented think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes® LLC, outlines what it believes is a model of autism causation disco...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 17, 2009, 3:56 am
The Daily Gleaner makes brief mention of the Oscars for Autism event held Saturday Night at the Delta Fredericton. Neil Lacroix and Kim Gahan of Autism Connections Fredericton, and Brian Jones of TD ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 16, 2009, 3:33 am
More than two years since I described Saskatchewan as Canada's Autism Wasteland the government of Saskatchewan is still dithering, and delaying instead of putting a quality system of autism servi...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 15, 2009, 1:13 pm
Last night I was honored with an award, for autism parent advocacy, as part of the Autism Connections Fredericton fundraiser and autism awareness event Oscars for Autism. I have in the past expressly ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 13, 2009, 3:25 am
Steven Novella MD, author of the NEUROLOGICA blog, doesn't like the recent IACC Statement on Autism Research and is throwing a tantrum. In IACC Statement on Autism Research Dr. Novella objects ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 12, 2009, 9:29 pm
CBC interviewed Dr. Richard Schabas chief medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward counties in eastern Ontario and former chief medical officer of health for the Province of Ontario ab...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 12, 2009, 3:50 am
MSNBC reports that a 14 year old high school athlete in Virginia is struggling to walk after coming down with Guillain-Barré Syndrome within 18 hours after receiving an H1N1 flu shot: Jordan McFarlan...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 11, 2009, 7:17 pm
This morning I remembered, in the comfort of my home, the sacrifices of those who have risked, and in too many cases given, their lives for our freedom. I am thankful and I am grateful for all that th...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 11, 2009, 10:04 am
Parents of autistic children and their supporters will rally outside Premier Gordon Campbell’s constituency office this Friday, November the 13th at noon to protest the provincial government’s att...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 11, 2009, 7:40 am
The declaration has been made by celebrity "autists"or "autistics" like Michelle Dawson, Amanda Baggs, Ari Ne'eman and various Neurodiversity bloggers that ""We", persons with autism spectrum dis...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 10, 2009, 6:23 pm
FEAT Rally Friday, November 13th, 2009 12:00 Noon Premier Gordon Campbell’s Constituency Office 3615 West 4th Ave Vancouver, BC Why should you attend? The rece...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 10, 2009, 2:19 am
The vaccine-autism war has continued unabated, primarily because of the actions of Dr. Paul Offit, Dr. Thomas Insel and the IACC. It will continue until a credible observational study comparing auti...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 8, 2009, 4:23 am
... obvious that a substantial increase in reported cases of autism would result from such factors, particularly the diagnostic manual changes, it does not seem obvious ... factors explain all of t...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Nov 7, 2009, 3:19 am
CARD, the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc., has conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial which found that HBOT, consisting of 24% oxygen delivered at 1.3 atmospheres of pressure,...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 31, 2009, 7:02 am
"Confusing cause and coincidence" has been used by scientists for decades to explain away the onset of autism disorders in otherwise healthy children following vaccinations. The same people do not, h...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 31, 2009, 3:31 am
According to many mainstream media sources here in Canada the H1N1 Swine Flu is perfectly safe and effective and .... oh yes ... any possible connection between vaccines and autism has been disproved....
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 28, 2009, 3:49 am
The Canadian Association for Community Living, and its provincial counterparts like the New Brunswick Association for Community Living, have done much to help persons with disabilities. Unfortunately ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 27, 2009, 6:21 pm
Number of Children Awaiting Autism Treatment Balloonslocation: Queen's Parkdate: October 26, 2009 - 1:00pm Ontario’s NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is citing more troubling facts concerning the McGu...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 26, 2009, 2:42 am
... Vaccine Church are not mentioned or, if mentioned at all, are quacks ..... and of course .... the many parental reports of autism development in children after vaccination are merely coinciden...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 25, 2009, 3:56 pm
It was a bright,colorful fall day but Dad and Conor had to head indoors to watch the Patriots play (and win) in Wembley Stadium, London England. Conor relaxed and watched the game with Dad while demon...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 25, 2009, 2:59 pm
In H1N1 vaccine safety becomes an issue in Canada Stephanie Dearing, a digital journalist writing on the Digital Journal web site has, unlike most mainstream media vaccine cheerleaders, produced some...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 24, 2009, 9:49 am
lbrb is a disgrace. The blog site which defines mudslinging in the autism blogosphere is continuing its disgraceful hypocrisy by slinging more mud while howling about alleged mudslinging by what it ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 21, 2009, 1:20 am
lbrb is one of the best known Neurodiversity sites in the blogosphere. The site fully embraces the social model nonsense of the ND ideology to which its authors subscribe. The lbrb authors, the "tea...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 20, 2009, 5:26 am
Here in New Brunswick we will be provided swine flu vaccines with thimerosal and adjuvants. Nothing to worry about according to our New Brunswick health officials but, as reported in the Irish Times,...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 18, 2009, 8:28 am
Malcolm Stanley is the father of an autistic child, and a Canadian autism advocate who moved from Ontario to Pennsylvania for economic and business reasons. In an article in the Toronto Star, U.S. c...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 16, 2009, 1:58 pm
The Atlantic has an excellent article on vaccines, including the medical establishment's cult-like (my description) belief in vaccine efficacy despite flimsy supporting evidence and the harsh trea...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 15, 2009, 4:33 pm
Conor wasn't as keen as Dad to get out for a trail walk on this beautiful afternoon so I used all my parenting skills to get Conor out for a walk with me. ... I negotiated ... actually I bribed h...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 14, 2009, 12:54 am
The increase in the incidence of autism from 1990 on may be attributable to more attention being drawn to the syndrome of autism and to achange in the diagnostic criteria from the ICD-8 to the ICD-10 ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 13, 2009, 3:21 am
ASAN does NOT represent the autism "community". At best it represents some persons with High Functioning Autism and Aspergers who view autism disorders not as medical disorders but as a social club ...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 12, 2009, 5:32 am
It looks like the Autism Speaks Walk for Autism was a huge success in Ohio yesterday. Cleveland.com reports in Thousands walk to support autism research that as many as many as 6,000 people, accordin...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 11, 2009, 5:05 am
With the recent dramatic change in estimated autism rates from 1 in 150 to 1 in 91 over just a two year period public health authorities, and Neurodiversity ideologues and pseudo skeptics have pulled...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 10, 2009, 12:30 pm
... Spectrum Advocacy Network, is continuing its takeover of the autism spectrum of disorders and its unrelenting attempt to transform ... social club for persons with High Functioning Autism, Asp...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 8, 2009, 2:31 pm
New Brunswick is about to conduct its own H1N1 Vaccine Autism experiment. The H1N1 vaccines used here will contain both thimerosa...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 7, 2009, 5:22 am
It is clear that Dr. Thomas Insel will not permit the IACC to recommend funding of an observational study comparing autism rates of existing vaccinated and unvaccinated populations as called for by ma...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 7, 2009, 2:30 am
I was quoted by Meagan Fitzpatrick of CanWest News Service in an article about autism and the H1N1 vaccine. 3 versions of the story appeared on line within 24 hours. I found this disturbing since t...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 6, 2009, 12:54 am
... this year. However, the higher rate might not mean that more U.S. children have autism spectrum disorder, but instead that physicians' ability ... began to circulate that studies announcing...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 5, 2009, 3:57 am
"It is not clear more children are affected rather than just changes in our ability to detect," Dr. Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, LA Times, October 5, 2009 What is...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 3, 2009, 7:43 pm
I have always been amazed that any one takes seriously the absurd autism rhetoric of Michelle Dawson. She engages in angry rhetoric aimed at the parents who advocate for ABA intervention for their ow...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 2, 2009, 7:09 pm
WOW! I am not a fan of Morton Ann Gernsbacher and her positions on ABA and autism but I have never seen anyone thoroughly, systematically and candidly dissect and demolish her criticisms of ABA as Ed...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 2, 2009, 5:15 pm
The CDC is now revising its autism rate figure from 1 in 150 to 1 in 100. Watch for the usual bright lights to trot out the 1994 DSM definition change to rationalize this very dramatic increase in au...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 2, 2009, 2:19 pm
ASAN is an acronym for an organization called the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. It's board of directors consists of persons self described as persons "on the autism spectrum". The founding pre...
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Harold L D. posted an article on Facing Autism in New Brunswick - Oct 1, 2009, 3:51 am
I am not going to say too much about William Stillman's view of autism except to say that it is nonsense. As the father of a 13 year old boy diagnosed with Autistic Disorder, a boy who is profou...
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