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Political abuse and the abuse of autism
“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 to...
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Eugenic Arguments in the Times
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 and...
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A Nasty Little Franchise
Wakefield may have the highest public profile but he is just one of many who seek to profit from autism and he is by no means the worst. Remember the Geiers? This father and son team from Silver...
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Polly Tommey poses as advocate for autistic adults
Polly Tommey is in the news again with this piece in the Guardian, Attention-grabbing antics for autism. It concerns her latest poster campaign, timed to coincide with the start of the General...
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Let’s Talk Autism – next live Prime Ministerial Debate
I just received this message from Carole Rutherford at Autism in Mind and ask all UK readers to join us in trying to get autism discussed at the final televised debate between the party leaders. The...
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Autism Science Foundation Named as a Top Rated Nonprofit by Great Nonprofits
The Autism Science Foundation funds research related to autism. They have been named as a “Top-Rated Nonprofit” by Great Nonprofits. Below is the overview from the announcement website. Mission: The...
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Brian Deer’s original 2004 Channel 4 report on Andrew Wakefield: MMR: What...
When Andrew Wakefield presented his hypothesis linking autism to the MMR vaccine in 2014 1998, he fueled a vaccine scare that is still alive today. It wasn’t until 6 years later that specifics about...
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Retracted: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young...
About two months ago an autism parent published a study: a “reanalysis” of a CDC dataset. That study: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american boys: a reanalysis...
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Jude Mirra’s mother takes the stand in murder case
Jude Mirra was an autistic 8 year old. Was as in he’s dead. His mother killed him with a fatal overdose of drugs and alcohol. His mother, Gigi Jordan, is now on trial for his murder. If you have...
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A look at the analysis plan for DeStefano’s MMR study: no evidence of fraud
Andrew Wakefield and Brian Hooker have been making claims that the CDC are involved in misconduct in autism research. In case you haven’t followed the story, it basically goes like this: 1) the CDC...
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Andrew Wakefield: paid $316k to administer $80k in grants by the Strategic...
When Andrew Wakefield left Thoughtful House (which has since changed it’s name and removed all mention of him from their website), he announced a new effort: the Strategic Autism Initiative. He was...
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London McCabe
London McCabe was a six year old kid. He was a kindergartner whose principal described him as loving to sing and happy. He liked hats. I wish when news outlets would report on murders, they would...
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Final Reminder: 2014 IACC Call for Nominations Closes Friday, November 14, 2014!
The email below was just sent by the Office of Autism Research Coordination to remind the communities that the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee is being reformed–nominations are still open but...
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Andrew Wakefield’s CDC Whistleblower documentary trailer. Words can not do...
Andrew Wakefield, the British former academic surgeon who fueled the MMR scare, has turned to film making as his career. Someone chose Mr. Wakefield to manage the publicity for what they termed the...
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ASAN Series: JRC Survivor Speaks Out
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is most infamous for it’s use of electric shocks as a behavior modification method. But electric shocks are not the only aversive technique they use. In a four part...
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Disneyland and the Disability Access Service Card
When Disney announced that they were going to change how they handled services for disabled guests, I and many others were concerned. The old system was very informal and worked well, in my opinion....
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Jerry Seinfeld, still not autistic after all these years
Jerry Seinfeld made a bit of a stir in the autism community recently by stating in an interview that, well, let’s use his own words: I think, on a very drawn out scale, I think I’m on the spectrum....
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ASAN Series: JRC Survivor Speaks Out
When this article first appeared here at Left Brain/Right Brain only the first three parts of the 4-part series were online at the ASAN website. Part 4 is now up and I include it here. JRC Survivor...
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Dan Aykroyd, still autistic after all these years
With all the recent hullabaloo about how celebrities being autistic somehow harms the autism community (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, check news sources for Jerry Seinfeld and autism), one...
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National Geographic, “The War on Science”, includes discussion of vaccines...
I just got my copy of the March 2015 issue of National Geographic a couple of days ago. Imagine my reaction when I saw this cover (click to enlarge): In case you are having trouble imagining my...
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