In Nature Medicine, Genevive Bjorn reported that parents of some children are foregoing vaccines, deciding to expose their children directly to other children who have illnesses such as measles or chicken pox. Apparently, parents who choose this method of developing their children’s immunities communicate with each other and, when one child becomes ill, they coordinate meetings—playdates—among the child and others who have not yet developed the immunity.
Continue reading ‘Natural-immunity parties’
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Lenny Shafer has posted his July calendar of events related to Autism. See it at Autism Calendar
If you are a person who might have thought “facilitated communication” was too far out, think again. This one will probably make you shake your head in disbelief.
School officials called Colleen Leduc and asked that she go to the school of her daughter Victoria, an 11-year old who has Autism. When she got there, they told Ms. Leduc that they had allegations that Victoria was being sexually abused. Of course, the school officials had performed their legal duty and notified child protective services.
How did they come by such startling knowledge? Leduc was incredulous as they poured out their story.
“The teacher looked and me and said: ‘We have to tell you something. The educational assistant who works with Victoria went to see a psychic last night, and the psychic asked the educational assistant at that particular time if she works with a little girl by the name of “V.” And she said ‘yes, I do.’ And she said, ‘well, you need to know that that child is being sexually abused by a man between the ages of 23 and 26.’”
What’ll folks come up with next?
Of course, you should read the entire story here or here (thanks, Mark), or track the coverage here. Flashes of the electrons to PZ Myers (Pharyngula), Janice Liedl, and BoingBoing.
Sphere: Related ContentLast month when I first saw the title “Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopmental disorders: An assessment of computerized medical records in the Vaccine Safety Datalink,” I was initially skeptical, but I wanted to check what was being proposed, so I jumped right past the author list and read the abstract. I was a bit intrigued, thinking to myself, “Hmmm…maybe there’s more to this than I thought.” Then, when I went to locate the actual article, I realized that the second and third authors were the Geiers, David and Mark. Slowed by the connection, I put the study aside for later review. Now, others have already done the analysis for me, and those analyses are the focus of this entry.
Continue reading ‘Young et al. deconstructed’
Over on All that Autism Douglas H. McDonald, Ph.D. is offering an online magazine focusing on Autism. The site offers a front page that features current news about research related to Autism. There are also other sections that provide resources, research, news about applied behavior analysis and law. Some of these appear to be feeds drawn from other sources, so they provide a ready way to keep current.
Continue reading ‘All that Autism’
Over at EpiWonk, a highly experienced epidemiologist provides blog entries about contemporary epidemiological research. One of the topics he or she is examining is Autism. The posts are worth a reasoned read.
Flash of the electrons to Liz Ditz for alerting me to this source.
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