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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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“Vigilante for truth”: An accurate headline…or shameless Twitter bait?
Category: Journalism, Media, The New York Times
Tagged Adam Liptak, Arthur Brisbane, autism, Clarence Thomas, public editor, The Panic Virus, Twitter, vaccines, vigilantes
4 Comments
LATimes on the autism “epidemic”: “more a surge in diagnosis than in disease”
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines
Tagged Ben Goldacre, British Medical Journal, CDC, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The Panic Virus, Wall Street Journal
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SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards
Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, British Medical Journal, Daily Mail, David Lewis, Ingvar Bjarnason, measles, Melanie Phillips, MMR, Molecular Pathology, Nature, Pace University, Paul Offit, peer review, Private Eye, research oversight boards, Richard Horton, Royal Free Hospital, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, University College London
19 Comments
Ask me anything: Reddit thread open for Mahola video interview
Category: Housekeeping, Interview
Tagged Mahalo, New York Magazine, Reddit, Skype, The New York Times, The Panic Virus
1 Comment
Parents and pediatricians: Do you think a pre-natal discussion about vaccines would help assuage fears?
Category: Autism, Health care, Public health, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
Tagged 9/11, Andrew Wakefield, California, Connecticut, Dublin, Ireland, measles, MMR, New York, ob-gyns, pediatricians, The Panic Virus, The Washington Post, truthers, whooping cough
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