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Adults, Autism and Scotland
I have been thinking recently how nice it is that the online autism community has moved on from the quarterly analyses of the CDDS data. For those who are blissfully unaware–the California Department...
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A quiet concession
While much has been made of a certain “concession” lately, it is worthwhile noting that the past month has seen a significant shift in the mindset of people pushing the autism “epidemic”. In vaccine...
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David Kirby clarifies?
David is obviously a reader of this blog or Autism Vox or Respectful Insolence as these are (so far as I know) the three blogs that commented on his claim that thimerosal was no longer the ‘smoking...
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Why is David Kirby grasping at straws?
Once more for the record, I like David. I tried very hard to get to see him in London last time he was over and we’d arranged to meet up for a drink but due to my family situation it wasn’t to be....
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Richard Deth – gambling man
Maybe you don’t know, or have forgotten who Richard Deth (pronounced to rhyme with ‘teeth’) is. He is: Richard Deth, Ph.D., is a neuropharmacologist, a professor of pharmacology at Northeastern...
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Autism Clusters Found: areas with high incidence of autistic children
Researchers at the U.C. Davis MIND Institute has discovered regions in the state of California that have notably higher autism incidence. But the story is more complicated, and more sad, than one might...
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Proposed California budget includes big cut for developmental services
In Governor Brown Proposes Massive Cuts to Social Safety Net, Marty Omoto of the California Disability Community Action Network writes: $750 Million Reduction For Developmental Services The Governor’s...
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California regional center on probation
The California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) has a simple charger: “The California Department of Developmental Services is the agency through which the State of California provides...
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No, the autism “rate” in California did not go down after removing thimerosal...
I recently attended a talk where the speaker showed autism prevalence by age group for a large HMO in California. The administrative prevalence (fraction of people in the HMO identified autistic) was...
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No, the thimerosal in the flu vaccine does not explain why autism rates did...
Surprisingly enough, there are still people promoting the idea that the rise in autism diagnoses observed over the last decades was caused by thimerosal in vaccines. The original argument was...
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