Autism

Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Boy!

Adventures in Autism — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:50:00 GMT

Happy 8th Birthday to my sweet, happy boy Chandler! I love you forever!...(read more)

The Autism File Magazine

Adventures in Autism — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:25:00 GMT

I just renewed my subscription to Autism File Magazine. Do you subscribe? If not, you can do so here . No Polly is not advertising with me, I just love her for her big brass ones in telling the British bullies to tell their story walking when they threatened to shut her mag down if she didn't tow the line like a good little vaccine injury denier. So buy a subscription for you and for your doctors office!...(read more)

Ten Million Kroner, and Head of Denmark Autism Studies, Missing

Adventures in Autism — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:02:00 GMT

THIS JUST IN.... Correction... turns out that this is not Madsen, it is Thorsen. So swap the names out in your head. Denmark research still remains crappy so no changes needed there. AoA will be posting on it shortly. Initial post: Almost two million dollars is missing from Aarhus University, along with the lead researcher of the Denmark Autism studies on which the CDC has based their "no evidence of harm" opinion. His name has not been used in the articles, but the head of the program that they...(read more)

The American Rally for Personal Rights

Adventures in Autism — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:19:00 GMT

See you in Chicago! American Rally for Personal Rights: May 26 Grant Park Chicago We believe in the rights to life, liberty, and personal security for ourselves and our children. Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Grant Park, Downtown Chicago www.americanpersonalrightsrally.org www.americanpersonalrights.org We demand the universal human rights standard of informed consent for all medical interventions. Compulsory vaccination cannot be legally and morally justified. We affirm...the...(read more)

Anatomy of a Witch Hunt

Adventures in Autism — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:06:00 GMT

Much has happened in the last few weeks surrounding Andrew Wakefield, and I have not been available to write about it. It has been truly frustrating to see this story reported as if the GMC hearing was legit and The Lancet as if it was a respectable and unbiased publication, rather than the dog fight between corporate interests and safety advocates that it actually is. Was the fact that 21 autism organizations in the US and UK filed perjury charges against the head of the Lancet for lying about Wakefield's...(read more)

Wade Rankin Speaks Wisdom to the Trib

Adventures in Autism — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:42:00 GMT

I wonder if Wade and I have ever disagreed on anything. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE TRIB I wish he would write more so I didn't have to as much....(read more)

Scott Brown for Senate in MA, He Supports Those with Autism

Adventures in Autism — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:08:00 GMT

A bit late to the game, however... Autism dad Doug Flutie is endorsing Scott Brown for Senate and so am I. Scott Brown, a tax cutter and one who advocates cuts in government spending, wrote publicly to ask his governor NOT to cut from Autism spending. From last May: Brown: cut to autism funding hurts the deepest Posted May 13, 2009 10:06 AM By: State Senator Scott Brown Guest Columnist Governor Patrick may be under a lot of pressure working out a budget for FY10, as it is one of the worst fiscal...(read more)

Chase The Hope

Adventures in Autism — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:39:00 GMT

Vote starting Friday:...(read more)

Barbara Loe Fisher Sues Paul Offit, Amy Wallace and Conde Nast for Defamation in the Wired Article

Adventures in Autism — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:17:00 GMT

Last year Paul Offit was sued by JB Handley for lying about him in his book, "Autism's False Profits". Offit wrote an apology letter and had to donate money to Jenny McCarthy's favorite charity. This represents the second such suit in about a year, and stems from the claim that Offit made in the atrociously biased November 2009 Wired Magazine article, " An Epidemic of Fear: One man's battle against the anti-vaccine movement " in which Dr. Offit claimed that Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine...(read more)

Down With the Bullies in Britain

Adventures in Autism — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:21:00 GMT

Polly Tommy sees no reason to bow to the threats being made by the establishment that she not only ignore Andrew Wakefield as a source of help for our children, but that she throw him under the bus along with the rest of the cowards that are carrying the establishments handbags to save their place at the table. She has called out the bullies and the cowards who are bending to the bullies over at Age of Autism . They even threatened to shut her magazine down. Now how can they do that if the free market...(read more)

The Media Misrepresents Tim Buie on Dietary Intervention in Autism

Adventures in Autism — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Today there is a slew of stories in the media about a study by headed by Tim Buie of Harvard that claim that dietary interventions doesn't work for autism. Except that I sat through Dr. Buie's lecture at the Maine CDC Autism conference last year while he talked about how dietary interventions do work for some with autism. He emphasized that at least 30% of those with autism have GI issues, the GFCF diet was NOT appropriate for all people with autism, but was for some, that the SCD diet showed good...(read more)

Julie Gerberding Named Head of Merck Vaccines

Adventures in Autism — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:47:00 GMT

Wow... Congratulations Julie! Who would have guessed that you would be the one person in the whole world that Merck would want to head their vaccine division? Oh... that is right... we did. Julie's years of "looking and looking" for a vaccine/autism connection with the firm resolve of OJ Simpson looking for the real killers, asinine statements on autism in the press and denialism of an epidemic happening in front of everyone's eyes has finally paid off big for her. Here is what we do know now......(read more)

Reposting: Unscientific Scientists

Adventures in Autism — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:23:00 GMT

[Looking back over what I have written this year, I think that the two most important pieces were this one and the follow up " Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Lori Kozlowski, Rosie Mestel, Thomas Maugh, David Gorski, Virginia Hughes, Science Journalists, The Dying of the LA Times and an Angry Autism Mom " that I wrote last summer. If there are any messages I have to offer in this debate right now, they are contained in these two articles. So I am reposting them for the remainder of the year. I...(read more)

Reposting: Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Lori Kozlowski, Rosie Mestel, Thomas Maugh, David Gorski, Virginia Hughes, Science Journalists, The Dying of the LA Times and an Angry Autism Mom

Adventures in Autism — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:05:00 GMT

[Reposting this from August . After Climategate showed us that yes, there is provable bias, corruption and denial of inconvenient truths in the scientific community, and that the mainstream media is more than happy to roll with it, I think that this lengthy piece on just how bad things are bears a second read.] Six years ago next week my youngest son got his 18 month vaccinations, DTaP, Hep B, Polio, Pneumo and Hib and then regressed into autism. Almost a year later I started this blog for the simple...(read more)

The American Academy of Pediatrics Thinks Docs Should Just Google Autism

Adventures in Autism — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:39:00 GMT

From Wendy Fournier, head of the National Autism Association: "Better diagnosing? I just got a call from a pediatrician’s office in Dallas looking for a toolkit to help them evaluate patients for autism. I told them they should call the AAP. They already had. The AAP told them they didn’t have any materials to send and the doc should Google autism for information. Seriously." I didn't think that it was possible for AAP to care less about our kids and the autism epidemic that they have helped create...(read more)