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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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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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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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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, ipad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines
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Has the Huffington Post embraced science & closed the door on anti-vaccine quackery?
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged David Kirby, Huffington Post, Jay Gordon, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Kim Stagliano, Orac, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientific american
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Washington State joins Maryland in suspending license of doc who chemically castrates autistic children
Category: Alternative treatments, Autism
Tagged AutismOne, Chicago, David Geier, Jenny McCarthy, lupron, Mark Geier, Maryland, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Autism, Vaccines, and Community: Straight Talk with Seth Mnookin
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Biology, Books, Ethics, Health, Interview, Journalism, Media, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Writers
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, David Kirby, Fox, Jenny McCarthy, Larry King, Panic Virus, Seth Mnookin, thimerosal
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