The NIH has a committee called the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Their main goal has been to create a “Strategic Plan”. That’s basically a roadmap for where research should concentrate efforts for the next few years.
They want your input. The official request for information is here.
It boils down to this: send an [...]

Imagine that childhood game were you whisper a story into one kid’s ear. He whispers it into another kid’s ear. She whispers it into another kid’s ear…
By the time the story gets back to you, it has completely changed.
Now imagine that people aren’t whispering, but instead commenting in the press or blogs. [...]

Vaccines get a lot of coverage on the autism blogs. One can claim too much
I just saw this document, Clear Answers & Smart Advice About Your Baby’s Shots by Dr. Ari Brown. This is one that is definitely going on the main autismlibrary.org website right away. It takes a huge amount of [...]

I recently blogged about frustrations with the way the Institute of Medicine was portrayed by Dr. Bernadine Healy.  My frustrations led me to do what Dr. Healy and Sharyl Attkisson did not do: contact the IOM for a comment.
After posting that, I sent the following email to Dr. Healy through the web-based interface at US [...]

It is well known that there is a link between autism and epilepsy. I’ve heard numbers as high as 20% as to the fraction of people with autism who also have epilepsy, but this number appears to be going down with time.
A recent paper has just become available online: Epilepsy in Autismnext term is [...]

There was much discussion (and there remains much discussion!) about comments that Dr. Bernadine Healy made in her interviews with Sharyl Attkisson (autismvox, denialism, LeftBrainRightBrain, to name a few) .  Dr. Healy suggested that the Institute of Medicine’s report on vaccines and autism is flawed becuase, in her assertion (a) the IOM (and others) are [...]

OK, ths post is late. The latest study (Hornig et al.) has been covered over and over again by blogs.
The basic idea is simple: try to recreate the work of Dr. Andrew Wakfield, whose 1998 and 2002 studies are what has really fueled the idea that MMR and autism are linked.
In the present study, [...]