note the following is a collaborative post between james a.k.a. dad of cameron of autism street and orac. feel free to tell which parts were written by whom. jenny mccarthys latest book mother warriors a nation of parents healing autism against all odds contains a foreword penned by pediatrician to the stars children dr. jay gordon. dr. gordon or as he often refers to himself dr. jay is the p...
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here are some interesting links from the blogosphere and some thoughts dawgs blog highlights this beautiful parody of what the new conservative arts funding program might look like local cache cultureinp eril orac posts a link to prometheus essays on cam and how their practitioners can be persuasive how they do the voodoo that they do so well part 1 part 2 its a sad fact of human nature ...
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every blogger encounters a post that he wishe he or she had written. heres one such time as prometheus schools us on how alternative practitioners manage to be so persuasive and convincing how they do the voodoo that they do so well part 1 how they do the voodoo that they do so well part 2 read the comments on this post.........
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since vaccines seem to be back in the news again i would be remiss if i didnt mention a fantastic post that i saw the other day over at a photon in the darkness. read it. read it now. ive done fairly long posts about how pseudoscientists and antivaccine advocates are capitalizing on the case of hannah poling who had a mitochondrial disorder that the government conceded may have been exacerba...
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prometheus brings us the best article ive seen to date on why the new push for a mitochondrial basis for autism is total nonsense. once i saw this push from denialists like david kirby towards a link between mitochondria and autism i knew we were in for a world of trouble. if only because mitochondrial diseases are a relatively new area of study and there are enough unknowns that theyll be a...
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prometheus brings us the best article ive seen to date on why the new push for a mitochondrial basis for autism is total nonsense. once i saw this push from denialists like david kirby towards a link between mitochondria and autism i knew we were in for a world of trouble. if only because mitochondrial diseases are a relatively new area of study and there are enough unknowns that theyll be a...
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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 be in vaccines more toxic to them s...
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its rare that the mainstream media gets it right about vaccines and autism and when they do i feel obligated to point it out. such is the case with sam wangs article the autism myth lives on. its well worth reading even though its a couple of months old. how i missed it when it first appeared i dont know. wang even nails some of the reasons why this myth persists although her jenny mccarthys conce...
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maybe i need to inaugurate some sort of monthly award for the best comment as some other sciencebloggers do. if i had such an award surely this comment earlier today by prometheus would be in serious contention for it re green vaccines one of the things that the greens are in favor of is biological diversity and protecting endangered species. this dovetails nicely with the green vaccine move...
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if you think you have a complete grasp of a subject you are probably wrong. prometheus......
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a wry observation from prometheus blog author of a photon in the darkness......
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