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Category Archives: Autism
Poetry by Scott Lentine about life on the autism spectrum
Category: Autism, Poetry
Tagged development disabilities, employment resources, health care, Scott Lentine, The Arc of Massachusetts
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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, Vaccines
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, Vaccines
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, Vaccines
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, Vaccines
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, Vaccines
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, Vaccines
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 roundtable, part 2
Category: Autism, Media, Public health
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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Public health, 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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