Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 15, 2009, 12:53 pm
Twenty years ago today, after 19 long hours of labor, after nine months of an extremely complicated pregnancy and preeclampsia, four months on bedrest, and some 80 pounds of weight gain, my bright boy...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Detritus - Dec 15, 2009, 12:50 pm
Twenty years ago today, after 19 long hours of labor, after nine months of an extremely complicated pregnancy and preeclampsia, four months on bedrest, and some 80 pounds of weight gain, my bright boy...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Detritus - Dec 15, 2009, 8:20 am
You've got resource information from where you live, and we need it! I have all fifty states and several countries up at the Infinite Diversity forum now. Please, please, please help us by joini...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 15, 2009, 8:18 am
I have all fifty states and several countries up at the Infinite Diversity forum now. Please, please, please help us by joining and sharing links and information to resources available where you live....
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 15, 2009, 6:32 am
I was reading the piece by Sullivan on the tragedy concerning Sky and his mother, and commented the following in response to David's call to once again go to the google news complaint: The steady...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 14, 2009, 5:53 pm
Move through transformation, out and in. What is the deepest loss that you have ever suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. --Ranier Maria Rilke This week will see a series of post...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 12, 2009, 8:15 am
AoA gives you this: "Preparing for Death at the Hand of Your Autistic Child" No person owns these words, but since Stagliano is the managing editor, let's assume, especially since they have her f...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 12, 2009, 7:13 am
Revenge of Offit Revisited: Dan Olmsted's back-handed retraction By David N. Brown This is a PUBLIC DOMAIN document (dated 12/11/09). It may be copied, forwarded, cited, circulated or posted els...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 11, 2009, 3:04 pm
The bright boy had an art showing at the center he attends. He was so proud of his work. And he should be. One of his pieces will hang framed for a year at City Hall. Art is something he's come t...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 11, 2009, 1:45 pm
Crap. Man, integrity, principles, pain in the ass. I thought  it was difficult when Ken and Craig post here, but Orac's new post feels like it was designed to make me squirm. I'm consis...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Detritus - Dec 11, 2009, 8:33 am
P8210008 Originally uploaded by Rick and KimGardens grow and change. Children grow and change. My gardens over the years have helped me to remember that: children grow and change. My garden girlies...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 10, 2009, 12:40 pm
Several days ago, I was taken to task by Doybia for a comment I made that if she'd had polio, she'd have known it. She quoted prominently from the CDC's Pink book's chapter on polio, a...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 10, 2009, 9:55 am
Countering exists to counter misinformation about autism, about woo, to directly address Age of Autism posts and beyond. I take on a lot of stuff here, and I've integrated some of the more persona...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 10, 2009, 6:03 am
A young person with autism wanders away and is lost. A frantic search is engaged in. This is no different than the hundreds of times a year where a young person without autism wanders off and is lost....
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 9, 2009, 10:30 pm
Nightstorm has an interesting post up that I hope you'll look at; it follows kind of on the heels of my post covering Doherty's exchange with a friend and me regarding cures. Here's ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 9, 2009, 1:44 pm
Well, is one man to blame for the H1N1 panic? That's the question AoA asks: "Is One Man to Blame for the WorldWide H1N1 Panic?" Now, they're just asking the question and then providing a ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 9, 2009, 1:08 pm
Catchy titles, huh? I mean it's no pope or anything, but it's something. So, I'm done with classes I was taking, and I'm caught up with my grading. Just waiting on my stragglers so I c...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 9, 2009, 6:58 am
Confirmed:  Age of Autism's editors and contributors are, indeed, hot-hot-hot for Offit. Long drawn out backhanded way of saying you frakked with the numbers, Olmsted. Of course, you don'...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 8, 2009, 12:10 pm
Disclaimers: if it isn't on my blogroll, chances are I don't read it. The exceptions to that rule are that I do (duh) read Age of Autism, Huffington Post,  and occasionally Autism's G...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Detritus - Dec 7, 2009, 3:21 pm
It is a gutwrenching feeling, the twisty-knotty feeling in your stomach that once it sets in seems like it will not go away; that moment you admit your beautiful, perfect child isn't like his or h...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 2, 2009, 7:28 pm
*edited for clarity* It's a busy and honestly, scary, time for my family and me, with one brother's surgery down and tumor boy currently (and I mean currently) under the knife to remove his b...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 2, 2009, 2:34 pm
You know, Offit doesn't state that vaccines are infallible. Just that they are far better than the diseases they prevent. Oh, and that they don't cause autism. It's disingenuous of you to...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 1, 2009, 10:43 pm
Kowalski offers a thought-provoking blogpost on the whole AoA-baby fiasco that is well worth your time in reading. I've posted my response to it (left at T & K as well) below: It’s no surpris...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Dec 1, 2009, 10:27 pm
The CDC is not to be trusted, don't ya know? That FDA is in cahoots with the big pharma, for sure. And they want to kill an entire generation and more to fulfill the Illuminati's plans for wor...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 30, 2009, 7:06 pm
Here's what I'm hoping for, folks: a letter-writing campaign of the internet variety. Age of Autism comes up in the google news feed whenever someone enters autism as a search term. Since they...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 30, 2009, 3:23 pm
**Updated at the bottom of the post (6:00 pm)** Busy day over at AoA as even some of its loyal readers take it to task, so I figure this warrants its own post as Blaxill works to defend AoA's act...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 30, 2009, 1:28 pm
"Specter didn’t mention the factual errors, which, when piled on top of the plagiarism, make his work look much worse. They suggest a habit of carelessness that he would prefer not to call attention...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 30, 2009, 5:29 am
"Dr. Nancy is under the table servicing Dr. Offit's RotaDick. Wait, can you hear her? "Fere If doh bontrobersy!!" Someone should tell her it's not polite to talk with your mouth full. Posted ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 29, 2009, 10:10 pm
I wrote recently about an AoA post by a mother who wanted to know why there was so much hostility and name-calling going on between those who believe vaccines caused their child's autism and those...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 28, 2009, 8:55 am
I opened up my email inbox and saw the near-dairly Dr Mercola newsletter full of woo (I really wanted to be snarky here, but I held back, just want credit for that). Once I looked through today's ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 27, 2009, 12:51 pm
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/11/hgfhgf.html#comments  In AoA's article today, "Pediatric SuperSite's Paul Offit Article: High Praise and Two RotaqTeq Ads," they absolutely prove they ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 27, 2009, 9:48 am
Too strong? Maybe slightly. His words: "It's been my experience that what researchers say privately to somebody like me varies greatly from what they may say in academic papers or to members of th...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 25, 2009, 9:05 pm
Eatin tha bird-not flippin it (by Louise) Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends! Boy howdy me and my gal Thelma gots lots to be Thankful for an such! Tommorrow we is havin an open house with Mamma H....
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 25, 2009, 2:19 pm
A couple days ago, Kim Stagliano decided to up the histrionics on her site, what with the burning house and the throwing of kids. You know, her usual overdose of hyperbole and her tendency to go with ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 25, 2009, 12:59 pm
(This started out as a post about the IOM and its 2004 review of the evidence regarding vaccines and autism, but it twisted and turned on me into something more reflective, something that, to no surpr...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 23, 2009, 9:38 pm
**Note, my comment did not get on.** I thought the latest blog post by Ullman was a piece of work. Nah. He was working up to it. Here's his latest comment in the thread, in its fraktastic glory, ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 23, 2009, 8:55 pm
How, if you're involved in the online autism community, can you miss the Tribune's reporting on risky alternative autism treatments? Aoa is all a buzz over it. Hate it! Orac's on top of it...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 23, 2009, 6:13 am
Ken was kind enough to start off the critical response to AoA's coverage of the Tribune's series on autism and quackery (post below this one). It should be an interesting day! Liz is keeping t...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 22, 2009, 3:37 pm
Picture taken from http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/080212.pdf (image cut off to fit) Should be noted that in this pdf, GenRes also promotes the idea that there is antifreeze and ether in vacc...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 22, 2009, 9:36 am
One of the common complaints of parents who believe that vaccines are responsible for their child(ren)’s autism is that there is mercury in vaccines and mercury is a neurotoxin, damnit! All mercury ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Detritus - Nov 21, 2009, 11:04 am
I wrote in the last post about the danger in waiting too long to take care of ourselves. Sigh. I also said that this week, I'd make my husband get out there and unbury the shovel. We had a freeze ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 20, 2009, 6:25 am
It's been the kind of week where I am working hard to avoid working on other things. Oh, I still get them done, but having every moment absolutely chock-full is a good thing right now. So, each mo...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 19, 2009, 6:13 pm
Our conversation below, with Thelma in bold (okay, italics): Shakin it up: An Interview on Integrity and Accountability Well now, sure an I know that Louise an I been missin fer a fair spell. We do...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 19, 2009, 10:37 am
I've worked with my garden girlies for several years on greetings and goodbyes and the right things to say. I still have to prompt them most days to tell their grandparents to have a good evening ...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 19, 2009, 6:18 am
"We won't get them to help us by playing nice." (1) Heckenlively writes this in his latest piece. Technically, he's speaking of the legal system, the media, and the political sytem, or appear...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 18, 2009, 6:02 am
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/11/alison-singer-feeds-the-hungry-lie.html#comments And now it's the varicella vaccine that is doing it. There's a reason that scientifically-minded people d...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Detritus - Nov 15, 2009, 7:32 pm
Nearly a month since my last post here, with the thought that somewhere there was a shovel in there. I went out to the garden today to see how it fared. Shovel still buried. I took some pictures and s...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 14, 2009, 10:48 am
 And the beat goes on: Desiree Jennings and the continued insistence over at AoA/GenRes that this has to be from the flu vaccine. Holy crap (not a new article, just continued comments by those co...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 14, 2009, 9:15 am
I'll start this off with a link to Science-Based Medicine's article on Herd Immunity by Mark Crislip at http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=516 for folks who might want a wee bit more infor...
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Kim Wombles posted an article on Countering Age of Autism - Nov 13, 2009, 10:38 pm
"When you lose control of your temper, you just lose control. You lose your dignity and the respect of others. We won't have that here. It's dangerous for everyone and bad for morale." Clay ...
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