Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Cry Shame on Wakefield and MMR

  Published: July 8, 2007, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Andrew Wakefield, Mmr, Quackery, Vaccines, Autism

  There is a new website up called Cry Shame. It is supported by JABS, Autism Treatment Trust and Treating Autism. One of its aims is To reveal the political and financial interests surrounding the role of vaccines specifically MMR and thimerosol [sic] containing vaccines - in the onset of autistic-like regression and to make transparent the

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• Patrick Holford - Quack of Quacks

  Published: June 27, 2007, 7:34 pm

  Tags: Badscience, Patrick Holford, Mmr, Quackery In Autism, Autism, Diet

  George Elliot’s eponymous hero Felix Holt was a man of principle unlike his father. After his father’s death, Felix was heir to nothing better than a quack medicine; his mother lived up a back street in Treby Magna, and her sitting-room was ornamented with her best tea-tray and several framed testimonials to the virtues of

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• New Scientist and the Autism Omnibus

  Published: June 23, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: New Scientist, Thimerosal, Mmr, Geiers, Autism Omnibus, Autism Parents, Chelation, Lupron, Autism, Research Ethics, Quackery In Autism, Autism Research, Mercury

  New Scientist has published an interesting commentary on the Autism Omnibus proceedings that are taking place in the United States Court of Federal Claims. They are quite rightly sympathetic to the Cedillo family whose case is the first of around 4,800 that seek to establish whether or not thimerosal containing vaccines, MMR or a combination

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• Downs but not out.

  Published: June 17, 2007, 5:01 pm

  Tags: Quackery In Autism, Autism Research, Downs Syndrome, Genetic Research, Research Ethics, Disability Rights, Autism, Abortion, Neurodiversity, Parents

  Down’s syndrome novel tugs at America’s heartstrings Moving tale that highlights genetic condition becomes sleeper hit of the year Paul Harris in New York Sunday June 17, 2007 The Observer Like many good stories, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter begins on a dark and snowy night. But, unlike most first novels from barely known

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• The Politics of Autism: from Hong Kong to London

  Published: August 12, 2007, 8:35 pm

  Tags: Quackery In Autism, Disability, Autism, Politics

  If I were part of a group of parents of autistic children organizing an international conference costing in the region of 200,000 US dollars, I would want the best speakers in the world. My top ten, out of all the speakers I have listened to at autism conferences, in alphabetical order are Tony Attwood, Simon Baron-Cohen, Gunilla Gerland,

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• Kerry charged over Tariq’s death

  Published: August 23, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Abu Bakar Tariq Nadama, Chelation, Quackery In Autism, Dan, Autism

  Roy Kerry has finally been charged with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment two years after Abubakar “Tariq” Nadama died as a result of treatment he received at Kerry’s clinic in Portersville, Pennsylvania. Kerry also faces an enquiry into his competency from the state medical

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• Bad Science Abuses Autistics

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:22 am

  Tags: Quackery In Autism, Badscience, Autism Rights, Research Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Autism, Psychiatry, Ethics

  If you have not read them already I urge you to visit Kristina Chew’s and Interverbal’s blogs where they write on an extraordinary technique employed by French psychiatrists to “treat” autism. And if anybody is fluent in French I would be interested to know what they are saying about it on Forum Autisme My own limited

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• Aloe vera may harm the liver

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Liver, Quackery, Herb

  Is aloe vera a wonder herb? If a herb could cure the same disease as it causes, you certainly could call it a wonder. But let me tell the story from the start. It was last week when I found a report on a 73-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital for acute hepatitis in Iowa. Extensive lab testing did not reveal the cause of her

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• Aloe vera may harm the liver

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Liver, Quackery, Herb

  Is aloe vera a wonder herb? If a herb could cure the same disease as it causes, you certainly could call it a wonder. But let me tell the story from the start. It was last week when I found a report on a 73-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital for acute hepatitis in Iowa. Extensive lab testing did not reveal the cause of her

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• The tricky job of quackbusting

  Published: September 15, 2007, 4:53 am

  Tags: Quackery, Mind

  Just tell the truth and refute false myths without repeating them because our long-term memory is good in storing details but bad in keeping track of true and false. This weakness of human memory makes mythbusting look like a mission impossible, but just try the best you can. After all, it is a must to save people from losing money on dubious

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• Jenny McCarthy and autism quackery

  Published: September 24, 2007, 7:23 pm

  Tags: Autism, Quackery, Dan, Jenny Mccarthy, Taca

  Thank you, Joseph for posting these links to blogs on Jenny McCarthy After Jenny and Oprah (LB/RB) The New McCarthy-ism (LB/RB) Jenny McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy together on autism (Respectful Insolence) JB Handley on Jenny McCarthy (Autism Street) Sorry Jenny McCarthy, you don’t speak for me (MommyHood)

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• Autism Parents and Celebrity Endorsements

  Published: September 30, 2007, 6:57 pm

  Tags: Autism, Quackery, Parents, Dan Asa, Donna Williams, Jenny Mccarthy, Jerry Kartzinel, Temple Grandin, Thoughtful House

  Now that the Jenny McCarthy bandwagon appears to be slowing down it is as well to remember that lots of parents are writing intelligent, heart warming and thought provoking accounts of their experience in raising a child with autism. Lacking McCarthy’s dubious claims to fame and fortune, not many of them get the chance to publish a book

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• UK's "Sense About Science" Questions Quackery [Terra Sigillata]

  Published: October 12, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Quackery

  Here's a quick note that might belong best in Orac's weekly feature, Your Friday Dose of Woo. The Scientist reports today on a report released by the UK-based group of scientists called Sense About Science. The group has been challenging dietary supplement manufacturers about their scientific-sounding advertising claims by calling the companies

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• Quacks with business suits [Effect Measure]

  Published: October 14, 2007, 4:59 pm

  Tags: Quackery Fraud

  ScienceBlogs likes to take on quacks. Orac, over at Respectful Insolence, does it every Friday and does it well. It's a good project and I'm not against it. But there are a lot of quacks around that aren't called quacks. They have corporate suits and research departments. And advertising and marketing departments. Big companies. Like Nestle.

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• Jenny McCarthy: responding to criticism

  Published: October 25, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Dan, Quackery, Autism Parents, Science, Vaccines, Jenny Mccarthy

  First, an apology. My offline existence has led me to neglect Action For Autism recently. This at a time when my blog has never been more popular. But I have no illusions about the reason. It is all down to Jenny McCarthy. I wrote a couple of short pieces about her and Google did the rest. As a [...]

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