The Today show did a segment this week on vaccines and autism. Along with Dr. Paul Offit, Kristina Chew (AutismVox) was interviewed.
As an aside from the vaccine debate, I think we all need to say, “Go Charlie!!!”. I’ve read about Charlie (and dad) and the bike rides, now I’ve seen it. [...]

As a break from the usual blogfare, there is a Titoism post up at\LeftbrainRightBrain this week. If you haven’t read blog posts by Tito Mukhopadhyay (a young adult with autism), or even if you have, it’s worth reading Creativity.
Probably the big news item for the week was the Presidential Debates. Senator McCain pulled [...]

I hope I didn’t lose too many people with that title–A lot of people might be thinking this will be more of the recent wave of autism on talkshows.
Instead, let me talk about an hour of Autism (yes, an entire hour, not just an interview/book-plug). Yes, there were celebrities: Joe Mantenga and Didi [...]

In a story entitled Parents: Therapist cheated autistic children, The Advocate of Stamford Connecticut reports on alleged misrepresentation and bad billing from a local ABA provider.
The director of the program lists credentials as a masters and doctorate from NYU, and a BCBA certification. The parents are questioning this, asking for evidence. The school [...]

I started this blog by doing some pieces on blogs I’ve liked–as I’ve added them to the blogroll, I gave a description of why. I haven’t done it in a while, but I’ve got a lot of blogs I’d like to add.
This addition is sWell, written by Dr. Rahul Parikh. Dr. Parikh is [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]