No, not referring to what gets written about at the likes of this blog or this one, but to the popstars and celebrities who’ve (per the September 28th Times) helped “scandal-hit medic” Andrew Wakefield relaunch himself in the US and specifically in Austin, Texas. Juicy, or maybe just more commentary on America as the home of the self-(re)-made man?

And now, Britney Spears is worried that her older son, Sean Preston, might be autistic. It’s reported that he “often seems to be off in his own little world” (admittedly, rather vague symptoms of autism)—-it does seem that, if your young child has any developmental delays and “keeps to himself,” dread of autism looms.
Thinking about this has led to me to reflect on the times people seems to be looking a bit too much in our direction, and a bit too long. Just last week a mother at the pool—a mother who, I had noted, seemed to be watching Charlie …read more

Not that this is becoming the autism celebrity blog or anything—–but just read that Britney Spears is worried her 2-year-old son, Jeyden James, has autism. The source is via Spears’ ex-husband, Kevin Federline; according to a “Federline insider,” Jeyden is “very calm and hard to get through to” and that he “does not mix with other children, and prefers to keep away from the crowd.” YellMalta notes that the “news comes after People Magazine reported that the singer attended a fund raiser for Generation Rescue.” A little competition for Jenny (not that she didn’t already have some from Amanda).
If …read more

Amanda “soon to appear in PSA’s for Every Child by Two” Peet vs. Jenny “Green Our Vaccines” McCarthy?
If the subject is vaccines.
Conversations with Paul Offit, M.D., who is chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a frequent target of the ire of pro-vaccine safety/anti-vaccine-ists, led actress Peet to be “’shocked at the amount of misinformation floating around, particularly in Hollywood.’” Apparently on the trailer of her soon-to-be-in-theaters film, X-Files 2, Peet says “I am not the most popular girl at the FBI, right now” —- I suspect she’s not going to be “the most popular” in …read more