Facing Autism in New Brunswick

• Autism Rising or Not? Mercury Disproved as Autism Cause or Not?

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  In an exchange at About.com: Autism AutismNewsBeat, the host of a blog which claims to serve as an evidence based autism resource for journalists, (it is really more of an ideologically driven Neurodiversity blog), has taken the position that there has been no real increase in autism over the [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:27am EST
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• Autism Research, Treatment and Cure

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  My son Conor is 13 and has a diagnosis of Autistic Disorder. He is assessed with profound developmental delays. His initial diagnosis of PDD-NOS at age 2 was changed to Autistic Disorder a short time later. In the 11 years since his diagnosis there have been significant changes in autism [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:35am EST
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• Kevin Leitch Goes Overboard, Opposes Interests of Children with Autism

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  Yup Kevin Leitch opposes the interests and well being of autistic children.That is the logical conclusion of the false dichotomy Kevin Leitch creates when he accuses Bob Wright of opposing the interests ofautistic adults. Mr. Leitch has his knickers in a knot because Mr. Wright commented on the activities [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:37am EST
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• Conor Returns to the Circle Place

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  Conor returned to the Circle Place, the Nashwaaksis Commons, today for the first time in almost two years. He used to love going to the Circle Place and then he just stopped and refused to go back.
  
  Today though we were in the area anyway and with some gentle [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:29pm EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Speaks' Bob Wright Speaks Autism Truths

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  "The protesters are lucky. They're well off enough, healthy enough, to do it. I wish my grandson were able to join them."
  Bob Wright, New York Post, November 19, 2009
  
  Bob Wright of Autism Speaks has called out the handful of protesters, barely autistic members or followers of' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:49pm EST
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• Chicago Tribune Says Autism Treatment Uneccessary, Just Let It Be

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  Apparently the Chicago Tribune is of the view that the only real concern facing autistic children and their families is the risks faced by treatments, and DAN doctors in particular. In two very superficial articles, yesterday's Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science and an [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:30am EST
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• Autism Rising in Chicago: Tribune Investigation Determines Autism Increase is Real

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  For the most part the article Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science goes over old ground in attacking alternative autism therapies. At times it appears that the article is actually going to send current autism knowledge back to 1999 when Teresa Binstock outed the [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:46am EST
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• Homeostasis Model of Autism Causation - Is Autism Triggered By Glutamite and Glycine Imbalance?

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  In a press release from PR Newswire, a New Jersey based business oriented think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes® LLC, outlines what it believes is a model of autism causation discovered while researching neuroscientific principles in business. The think tank members themselves are not scientists but had [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Adult Autism Care in New Brunswick Is Our Top Autism Priority

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  The Daily Gleaner makes brief mention of the Oscars for Autism event held Saturday Night at the Delta Fredericton.
  
  Neil Lacroix and Kim Gahan of Autism Connections Fredericton, and Brian Jones of TD Waterhouse, deserve applause for their hard work in making the Oscars for Autism event a [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:56am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Saskatchewan Still Canada's Autism Wasteland

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  More than two years since I described Saskatchewan as Canada's Autism Wasteland the government of Saskatchewan is still dithering, and delaying instead of putting a quality system of autism services in place to help that province's autistic children.
  
  In all fairness to Saskatchewan's political and public service [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:33am EST
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• An Autism Honor I Truly Value

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  Last night I was honored with an award, for autism parent advocacy, as part of the Autism Connections Fredericton fundraiser and autism awareness event Oscars for Autism. I have in the past expressly avoided such recognition for fear it would be a distraction that would prevent me from doing [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:13pm EST
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• IACC Autism Research Plan: Dr. Steven Novella Throws a Tantrum

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  Steven Novella MD, author of the NEUROLOGICA blog, doesn't like the recent IACC Statement on Autism Research and is throwing a tantrum. In IACC Statement on Autism Research Dr. Novella objects to the inclusion of research into possible links between vaccines and autism. Specifically he objects to language, [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:25am EST
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• Ontario Health Official Calls H1N1 A Dud Pandemic

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  CBC interviewed Dr. Richard Schabas chief medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward counties in eastern Ontario and former chief medical officer of health for the Province of Ontario about the H1N1 Pandemic and he called it a Dud:
  ""It's really not causing — and is not' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:29pm EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Coincidence Says CDC When Young Athlete Suffers Guillain-Barre Syndrome After H1N1 Shot

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  MSNBC reports that a 14 year old high school athlete in Virginia is struggling to walk after coming down with Guillain-Barré Syndrome within 18 hours after receiving an H1N1 flu shot:
  Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:50am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Remembering, Giving Thanks and Enjoying What We Have Today

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  This morning I remembered, in the comfort of my home, the sacrifices of those who have risked, and in too many cases given, their lives for our freedom. I am thankful and I am grateful for all that they have given and for all that they continue to give so [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:17pm EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• FEAT BC Autism Rally Update Friday, November 13

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  Parents of autistic children and their supporters will rally outside Premier Gordon Campbell’s constituency office this Friday, November the 13th at noon to protest the provincial government’s attempt to begin to dismantle individualized treatment funding and to mark the 5th anniversary of the Supreme Court of [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:04am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Neurodiversity's Extremist Autism Cure Opponents - By What Right Do They Object?

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  The declaration has been made by celebrity "autists"or "autistics" like Michelle Dawson, Amanda Baggs, Ari Ne'eman and various Neurodiversity bloggers that ""We", persons with autism spectrum disorders, do not want to be cured".
  
  These persons with mild autism spectrum disorders, including Aspergers, routinely declare that "autistics" do not want' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:40am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• FEAT BC Autism Rally At Premier Campbell's Office Friday November 13 at 12 Noon

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  FEAT Rally

  Friday, November 13th, 2009

  12:00 Noon

  Premier Gordon Campbell’s Constituency Office

  3615 West 4th Ave

  Vancouver, BC

  
  

  
  

  Why should you attend?

  
  

  The recent tragic deaths of two Canadian children with autism, killed at [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:23pm EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• End the Vaccine-Autism War Now: Do The Comparative Study and Quit Demeaning the Parents Who Actually Care for Autistic Children

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  The vaccine-autism war has continued unabated, primarily because of the actions of Dr. Paul Offit, Dr. Thomas Insel and the IACC. It will continue until a credible observational study comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations is done.
  
  The IACC ventured near a possible end to the war [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:19am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Is Rising And We Still Don't Know Why

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  “What bothers us is that we really don’t know why it [autism] is increasing"
  Dr. Alexis Reyes, November, 2009
  The above quote by Dr. Alexis Reyes, President of the Philippine Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, is taken from an article in the Manila Bulletin, Help sought as autism" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:23am EST
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• CARD Study Finds Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Ineffective Treatment for Children with Autism

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  CARD, the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc., has conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial which found that HBOT, consisting of 24% oxygen delivered at 1.3 atmospheres of pressure, does not have a significant effect on symptoms of autism. The study is summarized on the CARD blog.
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:19am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Respectful Insolence Is A "Science" Blog?

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  Respectful Insolence is reportedly a "science" blog. Orac the blog author is a medical doctor, a surgeon who uses the internet to do nothing more than trash and smear anyone who disagrees with his "scientific" views or whom he disapproves of for any reason. Most of his blog comments are [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:18pm EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Up All Day and Night - Severe Autism Self Injurious Behavior Video From CDFoakley

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  The following video from CDFoakley is not easy to watch. The severely autistic youth featured is engaged in serious self injurious behavior. Those who love and care for him pay a huge price. The video talks of families struggling alone and government agencies that just don't help.
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:23am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Priorities and the DSM V: Media Ignores Invisible, Severely Autistic in DSM V Discussions

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  The invisible autistics, the severely autistic, those with Autistic Disorder, profound developmental delays, cognitive and intellectual deficits, those who can not live independently, who live on hospital wards and in large, antiquated psychiatric institutions do not make regular appearances in the New York Times and its junior Canadian [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:28am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• H1N1 Vaccine, Cure or Cause? Moncton Wildcats Hockey Players Contract H1N1 AFTER Receiving H1N1 Vaccine

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  Since getting the shot, 17 Wildcats have caught mild cases of the flu. Two have confirmed cases of H1N1, and the other 15 suspected. All the sick players are quarantined, and several games have been cancelled.
  The Globe and Mail, Nov 4, 2009
  So how effective IS the H1N1 [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:26am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Awareness - Ari Ne'eman Confesses

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  "My identity is attached to being on the autism spectrum"
  Ari Ne'eman, New York Times, Nov 3, 2009
  If you ever wondered why some autism self advocacy groups like ASAN, and some self advocacy leaders, like Ari Ne'eman, protest and exert pressure to prevent discussion of the harsher realities [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:22am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• New York Times Examines Autism and the DSM V, From an Aspie Perspective, Of Course

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  Perhaps the New York Times is about to shock me and publish an article discussing potential changes to the "autism spectrum" of disorders in the DSM V from the perspective of the impact such changes might have on the lives of those with severe autism, from the perspective of low [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:31am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Fall is Fair in Fredericton for Conor and Dad

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  We didn't have the best of summers this year but fall, my favorite season anyway, was fair this year with lots of chances to get out and walk the excellent trails in Fredericton. I love getting outdoors on the trails; especially when my buddy Conor walks with me.
  
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:21am EST
  by Autism Reality NB

• Old Standby "Confusing Cause and Coincidence" Excuse Trotted Out in Advance of Adverse Events Following Swine Flu Vaccinations

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  "Confusing cause and coincidence" has been used by scientists for decades to explain away the onset of autism disorders in otherwise healthy children following vaccinations. The same people do not, however, bother to conduct credible studies to actually rule out a causal relationship in such cases.
  
  Most notably, despite [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:02am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism and Vaccine Safety in the Swine Flu Era: Does Calling Something A Myth Make It So?

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  According to many mainstream media sources here in Canada the H1N1 Swine Flu is perfectly safe and effective and .... oh yes ... any possible connection between vaccines and autism has been disproved. These sources usually provide little or nothing to back up their sweeping claims other than to rely [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 4:31am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism and Education: CACL Promotes Discrimination Against Autistic Children

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  The Canadian Association for Community Living, and its provincial counterparts like the New Brunswick Association for Community Living, have done much to help persons with disabilities. Unfortunately despite their many good deeds they have also, for many years, been actively and intentionally promoting discrimination against some children with Autistic Disorders [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:49am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Ontario NDP: McGuinty Government Cutting Children with Autism off IBI (ABA)

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  Number of Children Awaiting Autism Treatment Balloonslocation: Queen's Parkdate:
  October 26, 2009 - 1:00pm
  
  Ontario’s NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is citing more troubling facts concerning the McGuinty government’s approach to treating Ontario children with autism.
  
  “The government is cutting off more children from IBI when schools are not' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:21pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Is Autism an Adverse Event Following Vaccination?

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  An intense campaign has been waged to discredit parents of autistic children who report that their children regressed and developed autism disorders after vaccinations. The campaign has been led by Dr. Paul Offit and a mainstream media that follows faithfully and without questioning the Offit script ...... vaccines are the [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 3:42am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Conor and Dad Watch the Patriots from Wembley

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  It was a bright,colorful fall day but Dad and Conor had to head indoors to watch the Patriots play (and win) in Wembley Stadium, London England. Conor relaxed and watched the game with Dad while demonstrating the right way to hold a Space Pop.
  
  
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 4:56pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Digital Journalist Offers Balanced Treatment of H1N1 Vaccine Safety

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  In H1N1 vaccine safety becomes an issue in Canada Stephanie Dearing, a digital journalist writing on the Digital Journal web site has, unlike most mainstream media vaccine cheerleaders, produced some balanced coverage of H1N1 vaccine safety issues in Canada. In particular, Ms Dearing points out that Canada, unlike [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Blog Disgrace: lbrb Continues Hypocritical Mudslinging

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  lbrb is a disgrace.
  
  The blog site which defines mudslinging in the autism blogosphere is continuing its disgraceful hypocrisy by slinging more mud while howling about alleged mudslinging by what it calls the "vaccines cause autism consortium" ... SafeMinds, Generation Rescue, the National Autism Association, Talk About Curing Autism [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:49am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Neurodiversity Nonsense: lbrb Just Gets Weirder and Weirder

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  lbrb is one of the best known Neurodiversity sites in the blogosphere. The site fully embraces the social model nonsense of the ND ideology to which its authors subscribe. The lbrb authors, the "team", never fail to put their ideological spin on any autism issue, cause, treatment or cure that [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 2:20am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Swine Flu Vaccines with Adjuvants for Young Children? German Doctors Say Nein Danke

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  Here in New Brunswick we will be provided swine flu vaccines with thimerosal and adjuvants. Nothing to worry about according to our New Brunswick health officials but, as reported in the Irish Times, a German government vaccine advisory panel and German medical associations, including an association of pediatricians, disagrees:
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 6:26am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Malcolm Stanley on Autism Treatment: US (Pennsylvania) Trumps Canada (Ontario)

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  Malcolm Stanley is the father of an autistic child, and a Canadian autism advocate who moved from Ontario to Pennsylvania for economic and business reasons. In an article in the Toronto Star, U.S. can teach us how to care for autistic kids he has compared and contrasted the autism [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:28am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Are Vaccines A Medical Community Cult? Read the Atlantic

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  The Atlantic has an excellent article on vaccines, including the medical establishment's cult-like (my description) belief in vaccine efficacy despite flimsy supporting evidence and the harsh treatment of medical community members who dissent or question the vaccine faith. The article is not focused on autism and is not diverted [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:58pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Negotiations: Conor Holds Out For Treats

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  Conor wasn't as keen as Dad to get out for a trail walk on this beautiful afternoon so I used all my parenting skills to get Conor out for a walk with me. ... I negotiated ... actually I bribed him with the promise that our walk would include a' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:33pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Research Quote of the Year .... 2003

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  The increase in the incidence of autism from 1990 on may be attributable to more attention being drawn to the syndrome of autism and to achange in the diagnostic criteria from the ICD-8 to the ICD-10 in 1994. Also, outpatient activities were included in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 1:54am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Community?‎ ASAN Is Anti Autism Cure and Nothing More

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  ASAN does NOT represent the autism "community".
  At best it represents some persons with High Functioning Autism and Aspergers who view autism disorders not as medical disorders but as a social club for persons at the high functioning end of the spectrum and those people without autism spectrum disorders [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 4:21am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism Speaks in Ohio, ASAN Stays Home?

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  It looks like the Autism Speaks Walk for Autism was a huge success in Ohio yesterday.
  Cleveland.com reports in Thousands walk to support autism research that as many as many as 6,000 people, according to organizers, turned out in support. The moneys raised will fund the work local [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:32am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Double Standards Applied to Autism Prevalence Data

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  With the recent dramatic change in estimated autism rates from 1 in 150 to 1 in 91 over just a two year period public health authorities, and Neurodiversity ideologues and pseudo skeptics have pulled out a number of arguments to deny, once again, that autism is rising, that there is [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:05am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• ASAN Autism Spectrum Takeover Continues with Suppression of Autism Truth

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  The ASAN, Autistic Spectrum Advocacy Network, is continuing its takeover of the autism spectrum of disorders and its unrelenting attempt to transform autism from a medical disorder to a social club for persons with High Functioning Autism, Aspergers, self diagnosed "auties" and persons with autism like symptoms.
  At [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• New Brunswick's H1N1 (Swine Flu) Vaccine Autism Experiment

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  New Brunswick is about to conduct its own H1N1 Vaccine Autism experiment. The H1N1 vaccines used here will contain both thimerosal AND unspecified adjuvants. As with most public health authorities the NB government information is not balanced concerning the possible risks associated with the vaccines generally and specifically with respect [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:31pm EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Should Dr. Thomas Insel be Replaced as Chair of the IACC, Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee?

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  It is clear that Dr. Thomas Insel will not permit the IACC to recommend funding of an observational study comparing autism rates of existing vaccinated and unvaccinated populations as called for by many parents and credible health care professionals. He claimed before Senator Harkin's committee that such a study could [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:22am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• Autism and H1N1 Vaccine Articles: Meagan Fitzpatrick Clarifies

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  I was quoted by Meagan Fitzpatrick of CanWest News Service in an article about autism and the H1N1 vaccine. 3 versions of the story appeared on line within 24 hours. I found this disturbing since the omission of information in the briefer versions, in my opinion, totally changed the story [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:30am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB

• List of Excuses for Recent Autism Rate Increase - Add Your Own

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  The incidence of autism spectrum disorder in eight-year-olds in the U.S. has risen by 50% since 2007, from one in 150 to one in 100, according to a CDC report that will be released later this year. However, the higher rate might not mean that more U.S. children have autism [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:54am EDT
  by Autism Reality NB