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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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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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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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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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