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sethmnookin: "Children are dying": @washingtonian's @AlexndraRobbins report on DC hospitals rationing/hoarding meds for preemies http://t.co/hkNNFTnErj
EmilyAnthes: Logorama, an ingenious short film http://t.co/SD68AIicEp
TravisSaunders: @MrEpid @chetm12 @Taryn_PhD hmmm.... do any of the background papers on Canada's PA guidelines do that? seems like they must
hillaryrosner: Bizarre. RT @wunderground: Tornado Warning for Columbia and Dutchess Counties in NY until 6:00 PM EDT http://t.co/w5nDsnhDWQ
stevesilberman: Tix for next @PopUpMag event in SF, feat @jmooallem, go on sale today at noon PT, and will sell out in minutes. http://t.co/esyZGHoSOZ
daniel_lende: RT @Dirk57: Addiction is not a typical disease, nor a simple matter of choice. Maybe "disease model" should become "biochemical model."
mfenner: My blog post on "Attribution and Metrics" as background reading for my #attrib13 panel presentation in a few minutes http://t.co/lLCklqiK7o
MrEpid: Showed my undergrad how to run SAS code this morning. I'm convinced she thinks it's witchcraft. #phdchat
BethSkw: RT @hiwearespiders: @BethSkw @CarnegieMNH Hugs!!!
Jason_Reads: 7 anti-gay attacks this month alone in NYC, and 29 so far this year. A timeline of these hate crimes by @theferocity: http://t.co/ujzvATx9jH
jeancflanagan: @hildabast tell me how it goes! I planned on it but had to much work.
Category Archives: Autism
What I Learned from My Autistic Son: A Guest Post by Brenda Rothman
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Science, Writers
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TLC’s vaccine misinformation piece vanishes into the ether. Do they owe readers an explanation? (Also: Chicago Sun-Times endorsement of anti-vaccine conference remains online.) UPDATED
Category: Autism, Media
Tagged Autism News Beat, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Discovery Communications, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Ken Reibel, TLC
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Major medical, science organizations prepare letter to TLC about its vaccine fear-mongering
Category: Autism, Media
Tagged American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Autism Science Foundation, Every Child By Two, National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, National Meningitis Association, Oregon Pediatric Society, Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, TLC, Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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UPDATE: Sun-Times endorsement of autism quackfest remains online even after editor claims it was “incorrect”
Category: Autism, Media, Quacks, Vaccine safety
Tagged Alisa Alexander, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Jim Romenesko, Wrapports
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TLC disappears comments, edits its turd of an anti-vaccine piece. It still stinks.
Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety
Tagged ADHD, CDC, ethylmercury, FDA, MMR, The Lancet, thimerosal, TLC
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More media stupidity: Chicago Sun-Times runs propaganda piece for Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine conference
Category: Autism
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, David Geier, Jenny McCarthy, Mark Geier, TLC
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Taking stupid to a whole new level: TLC’s entry for the “Worst piece written about vaccines”
Category: Autism, Quacks, Vaccine safety
Tagged " Mary McCarthy, "How Stuff Works, Bob Sears, CDC, flu vaccine, Institute of Medicine, Lillian Hellman, MMR, thimerosal, TLC, typhoid vaccine
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Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Technology
Tagged Autism Acceptance Day, World Autism Awareness Day
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