Many local charity events and/or organizations in our desert focus on helping older citizens—but, as the father of a three-year-old daughter, I believe organizations helping the younger citizens are extremely important, too. One cause that my wife and I believe needs as much support as possible is Autism. And if it seems that news about Autism is more and more prevalent, well it is......
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A few weeks ago, on the  Autism Street   ’blog, I saw a discussion of the distinction between autism advocacy and anti-autism advocacy .  It started me thinking - always a chancy thing. One commentor gave a definition of autism advocacy - one which I think that few people would disagree with: “[A]utism advocacyâ€� has to do with understanding and support of families affect......
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Was it just me, or did anyone else find it jarring when suddenly John McCain interjected special needs children and autism into the debate last night? As you may recall, a few months ago he was tripped up by the antivaccine fearmongers who think, despite an absence of scientifically compelling evidence supporting their view, that vaccines cause autism. Now that Sarah Palin is on the ticket, he&r......
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Was it just me, or did anyone else find it jarring when suddenly John McCain interjected special needs children and autism into the debate last night? As you may recall, a few months ago he was tripped up by the antivaccine fearmongers who think, despite an absence of scientifically compelling evidence supporting their view, that vaccines cause autism. Now that Sarah Palin is on the ticket, he&r......
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I originally put together and posted this video (see end of post) at the beginning of the year at Autism street . In the short seven months since that original posting, I’ve received several e-mails from a variety of readers expressing …......
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One of the great “myths” of the mercury militia, that movement that insists no matter what the actual scientific evidence shows that it absolutely, positively has to be mercury from vaccines that cause autism is the Myth of the Poor Excretor . In other words, the claim is that autistic children are somehow “poor excretors” of mercury, thus making the mercury that used to b......
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Back in June, 2006, Dateline NBC did a story titled The unorthodox practice of chelation which was primarily about a small double-blind trial on chelation therapy that Jim Adams and colleagues had designed. The following is an excerpt of the interview where Dr. Adams is asked about publishing potential negative results of the trial. John Larson : What happens in the end, after all this hard ......
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