Comments on: Elementary, My Dear Mr. Handley

By: Robin Bailey

Robin Bailey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:40:21 +0000

Ahhhh, spoken like an armchair expert, Dr.Chew. Way back in the dark ages of autism (1996), my son had been diagnosed as severly autistic with mental retardation. He was 18 months old. I was given a list of all the things he would never do….never talk, never imitate, never socialize, never, never, never….. we had him go through two rounds of DMSA to release heavy metals from his system (which he tested “high” for) and within two weeks of the first dose, he said his first sentence. He began to make better eye contact…. He has not been totally healed of autism, but next week he stars in a lead part of the High School’s “Little Shop of Horrors” play, in which he sings, dances and has major lines. He mainstreamed into Kindergarten on schedule and has never been in special ed. Oh, wait, I know – maybe he never had autism to begin with – yeah right.

By: The Curious Reports of Vaccines and Autism on CBS

The Curious Reports of Vaccines and Autism on CBS — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:45:57 +0000

[...] that believes that there is a link between vaccines and autism, and that, from time to time, posts correspondence, documents, et alia, from those who it sees as promoting views contrary to its own, and with robust declaration of the [...]

By: The R Word

The R Word — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:42:15 +0000

[...] more that vaccine researchers have received. And let’s not get started at what, well, “not niceness” gets cast when some smell “government conspiracy about vaccines” in the air [...]

By: Politicking, Pandering, and Paranoia

Politicking, Pandering, and Paranoia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:53:57 +0000

[...] speak frequently of autism in apocalyptic language that suggests there’s a lot of catastrophic thinking going on. The language of disaster is often referred to: Autism is a “tsunami“; autism [...]

By: Myth, Science, and Autism: A Message from the AAP

Myth, Science, and Autism: A Message from the AAP — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:29:13 +0000

[...] about pharmeceutical companies (referred to as “Big Pharma”); some even go so far as to imagine conspiracies (among government officials and agencies) and to see themselves as maverick crusaders like Upton [...]

By: Myth, Science, and Autism: A Message from the AAP

Myth, Science, and Autism: A Message from the AAP — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:29:12 +0000

By: Bad Publicity Is Still Publicity: The AAP and ABC’s Eli Stone

Bad Publicity Is Still Publicity: The AAP and ABC’s Eli Stone — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:39:29 +0000

[...] be flying if ABC were to air an actual documentary based on “just the facts” (not the fantastically imagined conspiracies) about the autism-vaccine hypothesis. Tags: abc, asd, asperger, autism, autism spectrum disorder, [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:49:04 +0000

Handley’s piece could, I suppose, be said to have “sources”—the information that various commenters on Age of Autism found about Dr. Chung online. But the speculations and inferences that Handley and a number of commenters then made exemplify what many college students write in a freshman composition class. They insert quotations from a source and then—-in an attempt to follow the directions to “analyze”—-they riff on whatever comes to mind. This makes for some (sometimes) interesting papers but more than a few elements are lacking.

Perhaps one might say that the Age of Autism is a digital blogpaper.

By: Joel B.

Joel B. — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:33:08 +0000

The editor should never have to be an apologist, but that is what an editor has to do if an apology is called for. The editor’s job is supervise the writing process and then make the decision about whether something should be published.

So I guess what I mean is that the editor should have never published that stuff. An author writes something, the editor should make a judgment about whether it is good, ethical, well-written, makes an important contribution, etc. That’s why I think the author isn’t to blame here in my view as much as the editor. The editor is ultimately the one responsible for what is published.

By: thinkolmstedisaloon

thinkolmstedisaloon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:54:44 +0000

I started thinking of DAN Olmsted as just as bad as Brad when he **stalked** that poor man who was one of Kanner’s original patients and tried to talk to him and did talk to his brother. Then Olmsted whipped up a cure for autism (neurotoxic gold salts) I still think what dippy DAN did was illegal, and I’d like to know how he found out the real names of these original Kanner patients. Does DAN have my childhood health records? Yours? Will he blog them? Will he show up on your doorstep one day to ask you more questions about them?