Jenny McCarthy is one of the leading lights of Americas anti-vaccination movement (vocal to the extent that some sceptical wag has created this and her most recent pronouncement relates to the discrediting of the paper that many blame for launching the MMR “controversy” (Or more accurately the Medias MMR hoax). Read the rest of this entry »
ETA:- Edinburgh skeptics blog on Vaccines: A matter or rights?
It’s something you will oft see on anti-vaxxer websites – childhood diseases are harmless; things like measles, mumps, Pertussis, Rubella, Diptheria, Polio and Tetnus why no more harmful then a dose of the cold or a mild flu… A few days in bed and some calamine lotion and you’ll be fine… Read the rest of this entry »
There is apparently a new “treatment” for ASD avaliable from the XCell centre in Dussledorf Germany – Stem Cell therapy.
Dusseldorf, Germany (PRWEB) October 1, 2009 — The XCell-Center has released interim results from 10 autism patients treated with autologous bone marrow stem cells. Overall, more than 70% improved following treatment. Patients reported improvements in cognition, behavior, language, socialization, coordination, motor skills and awareness. These results support the premise that patients with Autism can be treated safely and effectively with autologous stem cell therapy. Read the rest of this entry »
For quite some time I’ve been promising I’d write a post on theory of mind and the idea that everyone is on a mindlindness continum thinking I was being clever by choosing fiction as a means of illustrating this…
Well as the Bard says…
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men
Gang aft agley.
(For those unfamiliar with the poetry of Robert Burns or Scots dialect that translates as “the best laid plans of mice and men do often go wrong”.) Read the rest of this entry »
Firstly a declaration of interests, of sorts, I am what some people would call normal what others would call a neurotypical individual who has worked with individuals who have required 24/7 support to cope with their ASD. I have also met many people who could either be defined as having ‘high-functioning’ ASD or aspergers who, to my mind, have barely fitted the necessary criteria of impairment to really be considered for the diagnosis they have received. Read the rest of this entry »
