Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 24, 2009, 7:33 am
Your pretty red house is engulfed in a roaring fire. You keep feeding the fire. Maybe petrol will help. Pour it on. Maybe some oil. Pour that on too. You don’t know. Nobody knows. Some guy you met o...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 24, 2009, 3:07 am
Just a little update on LB/RB news. First and foremost, the Crowdscience popup asking for opinions is gone. I’ve got enough data now to take over the world ensure any future realignment of the...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 23, 2009, 7:01 am
The New York Post reported on Autism Speaks founder Bob Wright having a grumpy slap at adult autistic people who were protesting the fact that Autism Speaks still has no autistic representation on its...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 23, 2009, 1:03 am
Such is the title of the latest article in the Chicago Tribune by Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan. The article is subtitled: ‘Researchers’ fears about misuse of their work come true’...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 22, 2009, 6:12 pm
Today’s Times carries an article that suggests that people with learning difficulties should not be allowed to have children because it would cost to much to support them. The children would suffer ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 19, 2009, 7:30 am
On 12th Novemeber, Vueweekly featured the second part of an interview with Boyd Haley during which Professor Haley contradicted so many of the basic tenets of the autism/vaccine hypothesis – and als...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 15, 2009, 9:47 am
Most people who are not on a mission to prove inoculations are the sole cause of autism would very easily concede that a large portion of the increased diagnostic rates of Autism Spectrum Conditions i...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 14, 2009, 1:02 pm
IV Chelation could cause death, and Thoughtful House acknowledges it: From a recent story in the Austin Statesman: Thoughtful House’s IV chelation consent form, which Juli Martinez provi...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 14, 2009, 1:32 am
Father takes ex-wife to court over son’s autism treatment is the title of a recent story on Statesman.com. The subtitle: Mother says intravenous treatment at Thoughtful House is unproven and too da...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 13, 2009, 11:00 pm
Autism Speaks recently put out what I consider to be a rather irresponsible press release. The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) added a new objective, and Autism Speaks chose to frame...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 12, 2009, 11:21 pm
A story just out from the Boston Herald state: Survey finds 90% of autistic kids bullied. The story starts out with: A shocking new online survey has found that nearly 90 percent of autistic ch...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 12, 2009, 11:00 pm
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has grown in popularity over the last few years. This growth has occurred without any evidence that HBOT is at all beneficial. A recent study, published in the ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 12, 2009, 5:23 pm
Guest Blog post by Dawn A. Crawford, Communications Director at the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition. At the height of the H1N1 scare it’s easy to forget why we are vaccinating chi...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 12, 2009, 12:33 pm
Screw autism. Over in the US, yet another dangerous ailment was triggered by the dangerous, untested, unnecessary flu vaccine…. Only two weeks after receiving his influenza vaccine, “Reuben�...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 11, 2009, 11:00 pm
Believe it or not, there is a application/quiz on Facebook called “How Retarded Are You?” Luckily there is also a movement to have this removed from Facebook, with the simple mission stateme...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 11, 2009, 8:14 pm
Autism Speaks recently announced that the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) included vaccine research studies into the objectives of the Strategic Plan. I’m sure many people who read...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 11, 2009, 4:23 pm
Autism Speaks has announced (possibly incorrectly) that the IACC (Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee) has included vaccine language in the Strategic Plan. Autism Speaks has posted their s...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 11, 2009, 2:25 pm
I was unable to listen to yesterday’s meeting. But according to a press release from Autism Speaks: Autism Speaks is encouraged by yesterday’s decision of the Interagency Autism Coordinatin...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 9, 2009, 11:00 pm
I’ve been thinking of this post for a long time. Pretty much since the first day the Autism Speaks “I am Autism” video came out. I would have loved to make a response to the video, as in ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 9, 2009, 5:08 pm
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee will be meeting tomorrow (November 10th) “to discuss recommendations for the annual update of the IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorder Resea...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 9, 2009, 4:56 pm
The National Institutes of Health were given a large amount of money as a part of the economic stimulus package. I just got the email below from the NIH autism listserve and thought some people ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 9, 2009, 1:32 pm
Its always a bit of a dilemma when writing an entry that doesn’t really touch on autism at all. But I have become convinced that the population beyond the autistic and autism community need to know ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 8, 2009, 11:29 pm
If you have watched a lot of Wiggles videos (and I have watched A LOT), you may have noticed that the Wiggles are special needs friendly. They don’t make a big deal out of it which is cool. They j...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 6, 2009, 5:00 pm
Time magazine has an article online today, ‘I Am Autism’: An Advocacy Video Sparks Protest. The article notes the protests staged in response to the I Am Autism video. (I have made my own positi...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 6, 2009, 1:49 am
On October 27, AoA posted an article titled “Without Vaccine, Australia Shrugs Off Swine Flu”, By David Burd. This article consists of a string of claims clearly at odds with reality: “(A...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 5, 2009, 4:11 pm
“Political autism” has emerged again in a row within the European Union (EU). Despite taking Britain into the EEC (the forerunner of the EU) in 1973, the Conservatives have always been vulnerable ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 4, 2009, 9:29 am
In an article currently in press in The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, University of Louisville researcher, Dr. Manuel Casanova, provides tantalizing evidence supporting his theory of ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 4, 2009, 3:13 am
The recent article in the New York Times concerning the possibility of the ‘vanishing’ of Aspergers Syndrome from the next version of the DSM (due in 2012) only asks two people with the A...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 3, 2009, 12:36 pm
This notice just in from the IACC email list: At the request of members of the IACC, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Scientific Workshop Panel 3 will be holding a confere...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 2, 2009, 2:40 am
When the Age of Autism reported on a note written by Story Landis, they added a word that dramatically colored what was said. I am left wondering why would AoA make such an clearly detectable misquot...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Nov 1, 2009, 7:52 pm
Ever since the Hannah Poling case became public, and especially give the way in which David Kirby has presented the case, there has been a question of whether vaccines can cause regressions in childre...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 30, 2009, 12:00 am
I really do plan to get back to real autism related subjects. I do. This subject just came up yesterday and it really bugs me so I decided to write something quick. One of the most common stateme...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 28, 2009, 11:05 pm
The following is an announcement from the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) will be holding a Full Committee Meeting on Tuesday, ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 28, 2009, 3:27 pm
A recent article in WIRED magazine took a close look at the vaccine/autism discussion. I discussed it briefly in a previous post. The article took a very science-oriented stance which, you can imagi...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 28, 2009, 12:00 am
We often hear about how there are about 5000 cases before the vaccine court claiming autism as a vaccine injury. What we don’t hear is that almost all of those cases were filed years ago. Ta...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 27, 2009, 11:34 am
There used to be an email group on Yahoo devoted to the ideas in David Kirby’s book, Evidence of Harm? It was called Evidence of Harm or EOH for short. The book was ostensibly an exercise in inv...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 27, 2009, 7:00 am
That’s the title of a post on Canada’s National Post website. Another article on the main site reads Controversial autism conference got funds from Sick Kids . The pieces are about th...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 27, 2009, 12:00 am
David Kirby is certainly no friend to my autistic child. I don’t know why I let David Kirby annoy me. It is a pretty safe bet that whenever he blogs he will write something that rubs me the w...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 26, 2009, 12:00 am
A recent study shows that autistic children do not have more mercury in their blood than typical children. When it came out I didn’t have time to discuss it. I have some time now, and other people...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 23, 2009, 9:58 pm
Paul Offit has been honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics for Outstanding Service. Here is the press release: WASHINGTON, DC – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will pres...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 23, 2009, 2:09 am
Tom Insel is director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) but he is better known to readers of this blog as the chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. If you read other...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 22, 2009, 1:45 pm
If someone says, “there’s a murder in the news and an autistic is involved”, what is the image that comes to mind for most people? This story from the Sacramento (California) Bee: Slain st...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 22, 2009, 7:23 am
The Autism Bill passed its final stage in the House of Lords today to become England’s first ever disability-specific law. The National Autistic Society (NAS) heralded the new law as ‘groundbreaki...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 21, 2009, 12:00 am
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is group of government employees and autism community stakeholders who are chartered with coordinating research activities within the U.S. governme...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 20, 2009, 7:52 pm
Say a lie often enough and people will believe you. That is the strategy over at the Age of Autism blog, and for the organizations that sponsor it. One of their favorite lies is the idea that t...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 20, 2009, 4:37 pm
This video is taken from the Simons Foundation blog. The Simons Foundation was able to get NIH Director Francis Collins to make a statement about the resignation of Story Landis from theIACC . ...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 20, 2009, 2:57 pm
A recent comment on this blog used this video as an example of how the Neurodiverse community uses “intimidation”. Take a look for yourself: I thank Mr. Crosby for bringing this vide...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 20, 2009, 1:28 am
Amy Wallace has written her first piece for Wired Magazine, and it is sure to draw a lot of attention. The article, An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All, covers a...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 19, 2009, 9:28 pm
California is facing severe budget shortfalls. High on the chopping block for cost-cutting are services to the disabled. One form of support is IHSS (In Home Supportive Services). The IHS...
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Kevin L. posted an article on Autism Blog - Autism news and opinion - Oct 19, 2009, 2:59 pm
New paper, just out from the U.C. Davis MIND Institute: Blood Mercury Concentrations in CHARGE Study Children with and without Autism. The Authors are Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Peter G. Green...
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