Articles by Dan Olmsted
►April 27, 2010 -
Olmsted
on
Autism: Gone Gary Gone
By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism - "Gary Golkiewicz, chief special master
of federal vaccine court when the key rulings denying a link between
autism and vaccines were issued, has stepped down from that post,
replaced by a judge who – perhaps ominously -- seems to believe in
moving cases through the court on as fast a track as possible."
►March 25, 2010 -
Olmsted
on
Autism: Special Master Adopts Schrodinger's Cat By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►March 18, 2010 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Boys Failing Due to Short Recess, Feminism - Yeah, That's
the Ticket! - Age of Autism
►March 10, 2010 -
Poul
Thorsen's Mutating Resume By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill - Age of
Autism
►March 5, 2010 -
The
Wakefield Inquisition: Case Series Insanity By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►February 21, 2010 -
Wakefield
Moving into New Leadership Role in Autism Community, Leaving Thoughtful
House.
By Dan Olmsted - "Wakefield expressed optimism that by working with the
support of a larger set of autism organizations he would be able to
focus attention back on the exploding population of affected children
and their families,
'which is where
it belongs', he emphasized.
'I
have
always followed the principle that good medicine, and ultimately
good science, begins and ends with the patient. We need to remember
that the purpose of medical science is not to serve the medical
industry but rather the interests of the patients the industry serves.'"
►February 4, 2010 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Enjoy It While It Lasts By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 2, 2010 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Thailand Teaches U.S. a Flu-Shot Lesson By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►January 21, 2010 -
Debunking
epidemic
denialism
-
The tenants of the ‘better
diagnosis’
argument and
why they fail. - Eye on Autism by Dan Olmsted via Spectrum Magazine
►January 13, 2010 -
Olmsted
on
Autism: I Know, Michael, Footnotes are No Fun. By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►December 28, 2009
-
Age
of
Autism
Awards: Louise Kuo Habakus, Person of the Year By Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism
►December 11, 2009 -
Olmsted on Autism: Fauci
Follows Insel into History's Dustbin By Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism
►December 9, 2009 -
Counting
Offit’s Millions: More on How Merck’s
Rotateq Vaccine Made Paul Offit
Wealthy
By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill - Age of Autism - "Paul Offit, vaccine
entrepreneur and public health spokesperson, has earned approximately
$10 million in income from Rotateq® royalties through 2009 and
stands
to earn a total of between $13-35 million over the life of his
rotavirus vaccine patents, according to a new analysis by Age of
Autism. Our analysis also shows that Offit’s future royalty income is
strongly tied to Rotateq®’s future sales in domestic and
international
markets, giving him a strong financial stake in both the specific
success of the rotavirus vaccine category and the global reputation of
vaccines in general."
►November 30, 2009 -
Olmsted
on
Autism:
Tell
Jon
Stewart
the
Truth
About
"Denialist" Michael
Specter By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►November 16, 2009 -
Olmsted
on
Autism:
All
Hail
the
New
Normal! By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►November 9, 2009 -
Olmsted
on
Autism:
Michael
Specter
Plagiarizes
Paul
Offit,
Massacres
Facts
in
“Denialism” By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►October 29, 2009 -
Olmsted
on
Autism:
Clueless
in
D.C. By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►October 18, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Why
Insel Must Go
--
Now! By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►October 1, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Crimson at Harvard By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►September 14, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: More Yupidity from Yale By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►September
8, 2009 -
The
Age of Autism: Dental Denial By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►August 20, 2009 -
When
Vaccine Development is Family Business: Thomas Insel's Conflicted Role
on Vaccines and Autism
By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill - Age of Autism - "Put simply, Thomas
Insel presides over the NIH research into the causes of autism. In his
dual capacity as autism planner and brother (see HERE), responding to
these concerns would require him to address a personally difficult
question: Did his brother help develop a product that increased the
risk of autism in children? 'With a topic as sensitive and combustible
as vaccines and autism, Insel needs to move on and hand the reigns over
to someone with no conflicts, real or perceived,' said J.B. Handley of
Generation Rescue."
►July 27, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Mercury Mayhem By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►July 17, 2009 -
Autism
Briefing Goes Over Big By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism - "A full
house of about 80 people heard Mark Blaxill and David Kirby address the
autism epidemic and its environmental roots Friday -- and one of the
attendees was a member of the House who suggested their remarks may
soon get even more attention."
►June 24, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Affective Contact By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►May 27, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: How to Completely Miss the Story By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►May 22, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Welcome to Illinois By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism -
"And then you get to this comment about Mayer Eisenstein: 'Eisenstein,
a family doctor who preaches a message of home birth, vitamins and
vaccine safety, said he treated 'virtually no' autistic children in the
past.' Dude! He has treated virtually no autistic children
because there are virtually none among the unvaccinated children in his
medical practice. And virtually none with asthma, either. This is what
you call chutzpah -- turning the fact that a doctor has not treated
many autistic children, for the simple reason that his practice is not
creating them at a rate of 1 in 150 or more, against him! This is
the first in a two-part series, The Trib says, and the teaser for Part
2 suggests they are going to bear down on Mayer. This is the pattern --
anyone who gets too far out there on this issue gets destroyed. And any
evidence that suggests a link between vaccines and autism -- like the
lack of autism among Homefirst patients, or the Amish -- gets tainted
through guilt-by-association or some other irrelevant factor and
reduced to mush. Mind you, if The Trib thinks Luprin is dangerous, by
all means let them investigate it. The issue here is proportionality --
for instance, as far as I know, they've never enquired into the virtual
absence of autism and asthma in Mayer's practice, or done any original
investigation into the huge surge in autism cases. And it's also a
question of context; those of us descending on Chicago this week are
not all about Luprin or chelation or any one thing. We're about finding
the truth and helping sick kids -- a lesson we learned from Bernie
Rimland. We have allies, although you'd never know it from articles
like this -- no Bernadine Healy mention, and I'll bet you breakfast in
the overpriced restaurant in the Westin that she won't be in Part 2,
either."
►May 19, 2009 -
Olmsted
On Autism: Oh, Just Another MMR Seizure By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►May 7, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Among the Neurologists By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►April 26, 2009 -
Drugs,
Death and the Manufacture of Doubt By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►April 20, 2009 -
Olmsted
on Autism: Columbine's Unlearned Lesson By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►April 11, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Healy Hit's 'Em With 'Heavy Duty' Hep B! by Dan Olmsted
- Age of Autism
►April 7, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Yupidity from Yale (An Ongoing Series) By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►April 4, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: 1 in 10,000 Amish By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►April 1, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Hopkins Loses Early Case File By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism - "Johns Hopkins Medical Center, where the original cases of
autism were discovered, can’t find the file for at least one of those
11 children described by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in 1943.
Presumably, several more, if not all, of the 11 case files that formed
the basis of that landmark paper, 'Autistic Disturbances of Affective
Contact,' are now lost to history."
►March 26, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism One Radio: Somali's Tell Their Story -- And Blast The NYT
- Age of Autism
►March 24, 2009 - WHO
is Anti-Vaccine? By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►March 21, 2009 - A
Character Assassin Caught in the Act By Dan Olmsted and Mark
Blaxill - Age of Autism
►March 19, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: ABC, NYT and the Verification of Truth By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►March 11, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Man Kills Ten, Self. Why? By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►March 9, 2009 - What's
the Matter With NPR? - Eye on Autism by Dan Olmsted via Spectrum
Publications
►February 25, 2009 - Vaccine
Court Awards MMR Victim Millions. Conceals Diagnosis with Word
Games. By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 16, 2009 - Voting
Himself Rich: CDC Vaccine Adviser Made $29 Million Or More After Using
Role to Create Market By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill - Age of
Autism - "Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
(CHOP) took home a fortune of at least $29 million as part of a $182
million sale by CHOP of its worldwide royalty interest in the Merck
Rotateq vaccine to Royalty Pharma in April of last year, according to
an investigation by Age of Autism. Based on an analysis of current CHOP
administrative policies, the amount of income distributed to Offit
could be as high as $46 million."
►February 14, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: The Art of Chess By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 11, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Worst Person in the World By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 10, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Steel Thyself By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 6, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: He Shoots! He Scores! Fire the Coach! By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►January 31, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: The deeply unlearned Kristina Chew By Dan Olmsted - Age
of Autism
►January 13, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Autism Explosion Followed Big Change in MMR Shot By Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism - "In 1990, Merck & Co., manufacturer of
the mumps-measles-rubella vaccine known as the MMR, made a significant
but little-noticed change: It quadrupled the amount of mumps virus in
the combination shot, from 5,000 to 20,000 units. Then in 2007 it
reversed course, reducing the amount to 12,500 units. Neither the
measles nor the rubella (German measles) component of the MMR was
changed at all -- each remained at 1,000 units throughout."
►January 7, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: The Unnatural History of Seizures By Dan Olmsted - Age
of Autism
►January 5, 2009 - Olmsted
on Autism: Travolta, Kawasaki, Acrodynia By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►December 26, 2008 - Age
of Autism Awards 2008 Person of the Year: Dr. Bernadine Healy By
Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►December 26, 2008 - Age
of Autism Awards 2008 People of the Year Honorees By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►November 23, 2008 - Historical
Epidemiology - Eye on Autism by Dan Olmsted via Spectrum
Publications
►November 17, 2008 - Feckless
IOM Does Agency's Bidding: Sound Familiar? By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►November 10, 2008 - Age of
Autism: We Are One! By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►November 8, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Reagan, AIDS, Obama and Autism By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►October 30, 2008 - Olmsted
on Offit: In Newsweek! - Age of Autism
►October 21, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: AAP, Feds Swap Cash. Why? By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►October 8, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: How the Media Misses Mercury By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►September 28, 2008 - Demon
Barbers of Mercury Street - Eye on Autism by Dan Olmsted via http://spectrumpublications.com
►September 26, 2008 - Nick
Jonas, Michael Phelps and the Sickest Generation By Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►September 22, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Tell It To Bernadine Healy (includes video) - Age of
Autism - "Today, we're adding a new permanent post to our home page --
a link to Bernadine Healy's comments in a CBS interview with Sharyl
Attkisson. You'll find it on the left sidebar under 'Papers,
Reports, Info.' We're doing this for a couple of reasons. Reason One:
It is the most important single statement by the most important person
ever to lend credence to a plausible link between autism and
vaccinations. It's a game-changer, and it's all the 'cover' any of us
need to keep raising questions until they are answered to our
satisfaction."
►September 13, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Paul Offit, False Prophet By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►September 9, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Is Kathleen Seidel Toxic? By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►August 26, 2008 - A of A
Q&A: Dr. Liz Mumper on The Rimland Center for Autism By Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism
►August 20, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: "Retards" and "Autistics" By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►August 12, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: 1979 Wyeth Memo on DPT By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►August 11, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: No Child By Two By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►August 1, 2008 - On
Autism's Trail: Olmsted & Blaxill Meet Hans Asperger Jr. -
Greetings from Europe: On the trail of autism’s origins By Mark Blaxill
and Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►July 31, 2008 - In
Retreat - Don’t give government’s “susceptible subset” strategy a
chance. By Dan Olmsted - Spectrum Magazine
►July 29, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Roy Grinker's Unright Facts By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►July 17, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: My pediatrician is a Dan! Doc - By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►July 1, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Bill Gates and the Moral Imperative by Dan Olmsted - Age
of Autism
►June 24, 2008 - Olmsted
On Autism: Where The Boys Aren't by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►June 19, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: What's The Matter With Kids Today? by Dan Olmsted - Age
of Autism
►June 9, 2008 - World
Mercury Project Rolls Out The Truth by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
- "The mercury flu shot for pregnant women seems to us like proof
positive that the public health officials and pediatricians of the
United States have lost their collective half-brains. Both Eric and I
have been told by concerned doctors that a big swath of the youngest
kids with autism now are 'flu shot kids' whose mothers got the mercury
shot during pregnancy."
►June 6, 2008 - Signs
of Intelligent Life in Washington by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►May 30, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: TIME and Newsweek and "The Rest Of US" by Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►May 16, 2008 - Sick
Monkeys: Research Links Vaccine Load, Autism Signs by Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism - "The first research project to examine effects of the
total vaccine load received by children in the 1990s has found
autism-like signs and symptoms in infant monkeys vaccinated the same
way. The study's principal investigator, Laura Hewitson from the
University of Pittsburgh, reports developmental delays, behavior
problems and brain changes in macaque monkeys that mimic 'certain
neurological abnormalities of autism.' The findings are being reported
Friday and Saturday at a major international autism conference in
London."
►May 13, 2008 - Re-Run:
We Knew All Along? Yes, We Really Did. By Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►May 3, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: CDC triggers measles outbreak by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism - "I'm starting to think we should rename the CDC the Centers
for Disease Contagion. You've all seen the news that there are suddenly
more measles cases in the United States and the CDC is blaming it in
part on the increasing reluctance of parents to vaccinate their kids.
But it's the CDC's fault, and no other. Getting the 'measles shot'
means getting the MMR, and the MMR is 'the autism shot' in the minds of
many, many parents."
►April 30, 2008 - Olmsted
On Autism: Amish. Vaccinated. Autistic. by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism - "Look at the photo to the left, of a 9-year-old Old Order
Amish child and her special ed teacher. This child's parents want
people to know their never-vaccinated daughter was taken away from them
at age 1, immunized at the Clinic For Special Children (more about them
later), and returned a year later with full-syndrome, non-genetic,
no-doubt-about-it autism (professionally diagnosed). That's why,
contrary to Amish tradition, they let me take her photo. They are mad.
They are heartbroken. This is not a study."
►April 24, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Lisa Jo Rudy Channels Bruno Bettelheim by Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►April 23, 2008 - Eye on
Autism by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►April 18, 2008 - Savants:
Despite their amazing abilities, science has ignored these individuals.
- Eye on Autism By Dan Olmsted - Spectrum Magazine
►April 16, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Made by Merck, Starts with V… by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►April 11, 2008 - One More
Voice -- A Big One -- Speaks Out For Common Sense and Decency by
Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism - "More and more mainstream experts are
standing up for the vaccine court and Hannah Poling and her parents --
and deserve our thanks and support. The latest is Dr. Bernadine Healy."
►April 4, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: The Head of HHS Said What? by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►April 2, 2008 - On
World Autism Day: A Plea For Better Journalism by Dan Olmsted - Age
of Autism
►March 31, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Susan Jacoby's Pseudo-Intellectual Junk by Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism
►March 21, 2008 - From the
Paper that Brought You the Iraq War ... by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►March 19, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Hannah Poling and Rachel Carson by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►March 16, 2008 - The AAP
Still Doesn't Get IT -- And Never Will by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►March 15, 2008 - For
Thimerosal Apologists, Pride Goeth Before a Fall by Dan Olmsted -
Age of Autism - "Below is a link to my most recent column for Spectrum
Magazine, done before the Poling case hit the news -- remember, that
was a test case for thimerosal causing autism, and the government has
now thrown in the towel. Comments like Art Caplan's and Paul Offit's
below may someday be remembered as the height of medical
arrogance, just before the walls started tumbling down."
►March 13, 2008 - Paging
Dr. Gupta -- Stat! by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►March 5, 2008 - OH,
JUST 2 MORE SHOCKING VAX vs. UNVAXED SURVEYS. LAD-DE-DAH. by Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 28, 2008 - What
Does ProQuad Tell Us About the MMR? by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 27, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: ABC Snaps to Attention Over Vaccine Case by Dan Olmsted
- Age of Autism
►February 20, 2008 - Parents
Protest at Pediatricians' Front Door by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
- "Also speaking at the rally was Dr. David Ayoub, a radiologist from
Springfield. Asked why he was attending, Ayoub said: 'I have had some
close interactions with AAP people and I lobbied quite a bit in
Illinois at several hearings and testified in Massachusetts and
interacted early on with the Illinois State Chapter president. This is
when I first found out what was going on and I thought they were
legitimately uninformed, and so we had several conversations and
e-mails back and forth and it didn't take me too long to figure out
they pretty much know what's going on.' 'They know what?' Age of Autism
asked. 'They know vaccines cause autism, I don't think there's any
question.'"
►February 19, 2008 - Olmsted
on Autism: Savants, Conflicts, Consequences by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►February 15, 2008 - Podcast
With Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 14, 2008 - Dan
Olmsted: Observations from Recent Days - Age of Autism
►February 12, 2008 - Age of
Autism: Our Story So Far by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►February 7, 2008 - MMR and
the Simple Truth About Autism by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism -
"Does the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine cause autism? I vote yes."
►February 4, 2008 - Dan
Olmsted: "Attacking" My Amish Coverage - With enemies like this,
who needs friends? - Age of Autism
►January 28, 2008 - 7
reasons not to give up on the mercury/autism link. by Dan Olmsted -
Spectrum Magazine
►January 27, 2008 - Time to Rain on
the Media Parade by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►January 24, 2008 - Pay No
Attention To This Vaxed-Unvaxed Survey - Age of Autism
►January 20, 2008 - Can't
Anyone Get These Delusions Out Of My Head? by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►January 11, 2008 - Mercury,
Thimerosal and the Natural History of Autism by Dan Olmsted - Age
of Autism
►January 4, 2008 - A of A
Q&A: Pediatrician on Autism, Part 3 by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism - "Editor's note: This is the third installment of a three-part
interview with Dr. Julie Buckley of Ponte Verdra Beach, Fla., a DAN!
doctor with an affected child -- and some important observations on the
state of our children's health and how to improve it."
►January 3, 2008 - A of A
Q&A: Pediatrician on Autism, Part 2 by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism - "Editor's note: This is the second of a three-part interview.
I first met Dr. Julie Buckley of Ponte Verdra Beach, Fla., at the NAA
convention in Atlanta."
►January 2, 2008 - A of A
Q&A: Pediatrician on Autism, Vaccination & Recovery by Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism - "Editor's note: This is the first of a
three-part interview. I first met Dr. Julie Buckley of Ponte Verdra
Beach, Fla., at the NAA convention in Atlanta."
►January 1, 2008 - INTRODUCING
DIEOXX by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►December 28, 2007 - The
Experts, The Truth and Gold Salts by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism
►December 25, 2007 - Age of
Autism's Person of the Year: Jenny McCarthy by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism - "And she was most certainly 'Louder Than Words,' the title of
her book about 'A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism.' She managed to
create a multimedia extravaganza, with Oprah and Larry King listening
respectfully as she did the previously unthinkable -- blame autism on
vaccines, in detail and at length, in front of a national audience."
►December 18, 2007 - Dr.
Insel & The Trick Question About Autism and Vaccines By Dan
Olmsted - Age of Autism - "One of the most interesting - not to mention
important - figures in the current controversy over autism is the head
of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel.
Considering his central role in finding the cause, some of his recent
comments should make those who say vaccines have been exonerated just a
bit nervous."
►December 14, 2007 - Could
Autism Actually Be Declining After All? by Dan Olmsted - Age of
Autism
►December 10, 2007 - Age of
Autism "Q&A" The Sacred Cow (Vaccines) And Autism in India -
Age of Autism Q&A is a new feature by Dan Olmsted. We hope you
enjoy it. - Age of Autism - "In this first-of-its-kind interview, two
veteran health professionals talk about their eyewitness experience in
India – and their account differs starkly from the official line. I met
husband-and-wife chiropractic doctors Matthew Lewis and Dipti Patel at
a Long Island autism conference recently. I was impressed by
their candor and compassion and the significance of their first-hand
observations."
►December 6, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: The FDA Risks Your Kid's Life Every Day - Age of Autism
►November 30, 2007 - How I
Got Interested In Autism: The Same Sad Refrain - Age of Autism -
"Sooner or later many people ask me why I'm interested in the autism
epidemic, and the short answer is the same one David Kirby gives --
it's a great story. The longer answer has to do with a memorial
gathering I'm attending tonight for a woman who jumped to her death
from the observation tower of a national park. This was a vibrant woman
from Maryland who had gone to South Africa to coach athletes. She took
two -- count 'em, two -- malaria pills recommended by the CDC and went
completely psychotic."
►November 27, 2007 - Why Age
of Autism Exists -- Exhibit A: Merck and Reuters - Age of Autism -
"If you want to know why those concerned about autism deserve an
alternative to the mainstream media, look no further than the
announcement today that the CEO of Reuters Group PLC, Thomas Glocer,
has joined the board of Merck. Many of us who believe autism is an
environmental illness -- and vaccines likely play an unacknowledged
role -- have long commented on the seeming sheepishness of Big Media.
When you look at the amount of pharma advertising propping up the
newsweeklies and the evening news, and notice how credulous their
coverage of this issue is, it's hard not to suspect the worst."
►November 15, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: Who Belongs in Jail? - Age of Autism
►October 31, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: I'm not vaclempt! - Age of Autism - "Get it? Concerns
about vaccines causing autism are emotional; science that refutes it is
logical. Parents who believe their kid's autism came from vaccines are
fearful; experts who say otherwise are calming and rational. If these
overrought parents would just lie down in a bathtub filled with ice and
listen to reason, this debate would be over."
► October 29, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: The breast cancer analogy - Age of Autism - "One big
problem the autism community faces is lousy coverage by Big Media.
Where is the curiosity and sense of urgency in the face of the soaring
autism rate? Where is the willingness to challenge self-interested
parties like the CDC and the AAP rather than rewriting their press
releases and calling it a day? This kind of coverage is not limited to
autism, and it can be revealing to look at other illnesses and see the
same kind of haphazard and just plain mediocre reporting. This is
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so let's make it a case study."
► October 9, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: Thanks a lot, Columbus. - Age of Autism - "Did you know
that in all probability we have Christopher Columbus to thank for the
big fat dose of mercury being injected every day into pregnant women,
infants and old folks this time of year?"
►October 1, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: The CDC's Point-Three Problem - Age of Autism - "Dr.
Schuchat was responding to a Forbes reporter who followed up on my
question. The reporter clearly thought a never-vaccinated control group
was a logical idea and was pressing for an explanation for why that
wasn't done; Dr. Schuchat's argument was that the immunization rate in
the United States is so high that a study comparing never-vaccinated
kids is just not practical. Well, let's do the math. There are four
million or so children born in the U.S. every year. At a rate of 0.3
percentage points, that leaves about 12,000 American kids unvaccinated
at age 2, year after year after year. Gosh, I'd love to know how many
of that 12,000 grow up autistic -- it's 66 per 10,000 kids overall,
according to the latest CDC numbers."
► September 27, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: The CDC gets Jukt - Age of Autism - "CDC MODERATOR:
"Next question, please." This is the indecipherable palaver I've been
hearing for more than two years from the CDC whenever I ask this
question -- what it comes down to is they didn't, can't and won't look
at never-vaccinated kids because there weren't, aren't and won't be
enough, and if there were, they'd be too weird. Next question, please.
This despite the fact that ten thousand or so are part of one medical
practice in Chicago that says it has virtually no autism or asthma
among its never-vaccinated, home-birthed children. Despite the fact
that homeschooled kids have a significantly lower vaccination rate and,
according to one doctor who treats them, almost no autism. Despite the
fact that the Amish ... oh, never mind. By now I'm used to this answer
and the fact that almost none of my colleagues seem to think it's a big
deal. But as I looked through the transcript, I realized that the
follow-up questioner, the one who pestered them for a real answer
rather than indecipherable palaver, was a guy named Matthew Herper
(according to the transcript). And he's from -- of all places --
Forbes."
► September 18, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: The Caplan Cadre - Age of Autism - "Well, what it tells
me is that there's a perfect 'control group' out there waiting to be
matched up with fully vaccinated children to see how the rates of the
Four A's -- autism, ADD, asthma and allergies -- compare. While we're
at it, let's toss in another A -- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis --
along with juvenile diabetes, gastro and skin disorders, anaphylactic
peanut allergies, obesity, SIDS -- you name it, let's rule it out. It's
just awfully interesting that such a study has never been done, given
the view of mainstream medicine that confidence in vaccines represents
'the last best hope,' in Caplan's words, against the oncoming horde of
microbes. Without a decisive full-on study, reasonable people have
reason for concern that the rates of at least some of those disorders,
especially autism and asthma, might well be lower in never-vaccinated
kids. That evidence comes from sources as diverse as a medical practice
in Chicago whose thousands of never-vaccinated kids have almost no
autism and asthma, to the Generation Rescue survey that found
significantly higher rates of both in vaccinated children. I also found
anecdotal evidence of the same phenomenon among the Amish."
► September 11, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: Sneezing at bipolar kids - Age of Autism - "Reminds me
of the joke, 'Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?'
Something is clearly happening to our kids, and whether you call it
bipolar or sensory integration problems or attention deficits or, in
more severe cases, Asperger's and autism, it's been noticed time and
again by the front-line educators and health workers who see our
children in large numbers every day. And ignored by the medical/media
establishment."
► August 31, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: The China Syndrome - Age of Autism - "Aren't the
implications pretty chilling? If mercury is related to autism, wouldn't
you expect the autism rate in California to keep rising? As I've
studied the subject over the past couple of years, I've come across a
number of never-vaccinated kids with the disorder. But often, another
link to mercury immediately presents itself. The most notable instance:
I reported that fewer Amish kids were vaccinated, fewer seem to have
autism, and the few that I did find had in fact been vaccinated. (As
critics have pointed out, this is anecdotal and scientifically
unconvincing -- which is why the never-performed study of
never-vaccinated kids needs to be done)."
►August 17, 2007 - Olmsted
on Autism: Get the lead out - Age of Autism - "Lead, we know, is
bad. It's so bad there is no safe level. It stunts the brain and body
in both blatant and subtle ways, lowering IQs and so on. Kind of like
organic mercury, right? Kind of like the organic mercury we phased out
of most of our own vaccines but say is just fine for everybody else --
including a billion Chinese? (At least Mattel did a full and immediate
recall rather than offer to phase out the leaded toys as toddlers
outgrew them.)"
►July 18, 2007 - The Age of
Autism: The last word - United Press International via The Earth
Times - "This is my 113th and final Age of Autism column. United Press
International, which has been the hospitable home for this series, is
restructuring, and I'm off to adventures as yet unknown -- although I
intend to keep my focus on autism and related issues. Why? Because it
is the story of a lifetime."
►June 26, 2007 - The
Age of Autism: Study sees vaccine risk - United Press International
via redOrbit - "A new, privately funded survey finds vaccinated U.S.
children have a significantly higher risk of neurological disorders --
including autism -- than unvaccinated children. In one striking
finding, vaccinated boys 11-17 were more than twice as likely to have
autism as their never-vaccinated counterparts....'No one has ever
compared prevalence rates of these neurological disorders between
vaccinated and unvaccinated children,' said J.B. Handley, father of a
child with autism and co-founder of Generation Rescue, which
commissioned the $200,000 survey conducted by SurveyUSA, a respected
marketing firm."
► May 31, 2007 - The Age of
Autism: Quite the coincidence - United Press International via The
Earth Times - "Another remarkable fact that caught my attention: Autism
was first identified in both the United States and Europe at almost
exactly the same time. Child psychiatrist Leo Kanner published his
landmark paper at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1943;
pediatrician Hans Asperger published his -- about a slightly less
severely affected group of children -- in Vienna in 1944. Cut off by a
world war, neither knew of the other's work."
► May 3, 2007 - The Age
of Autism: Gluten clue from Case 2 - United Press International via
The Earth Times - "'Gluten is a protein and is contained in foods, such
as wheat, barley, rye and oats,' according to autism.org. 'At the
present time, we do not know why the gluten/casein-free diet helps many
autistic individuals.' One theory is that they release opioid-like
substances in the gut that can migrate to the brain. Well, here's
another hypothesis -- could some of those grains be grown in places
where residual toxins -- ethyl mercury, say, but in fact any
environmental toxin -- are getting into them and thus into our kids?
And if some child's body burden or susceptibility is already at the
tipping point, could that aggravate or even induce physical and mental
symptoms that go by the name of autism?"
► April 26, 2007 - The Age of
Autism: Ground Zero - United Press International via The Earth
Times - "This column has long made the controversial case that autism
had a beginning, a 'big bang' if you will. That moment was 1930 -- no
U.S. cases before then fully match the classic description of the
disorder. Now let's take the next logical step: Not only did autism
have a big bang, it also had a ground zero -- a place where many of the
first cases concentrated before the disorder exploded nationwide."
► March 6, 2007 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury link to Case 2 - United Press International
via redOrbit
►February 28, 2007 - Mercury Rising
- A Possible Link Between Chemical Exposure And Autism May Have Been
Overlooked In The Very Earliest Cases At Johns Hopkins - Baltimore City
Paper - "'So now we have learned that Frederick Wellman handled ethyl
mercury fungicides that were first introduced to the market in 1929 and
that his child was Kanner's patient No. 2,' says Mark Blaxill, whose
daughter Michaela has autism. Blaxill is vice president of the advocacy
organization SafeMinds, which argues increased mercury exposure is
behind the soaring autism rate. 'And we know that cases 1 and 3 grew up
around the first application of ethyl mercury products. If that's not a
smoking gun, I don't know what is,' Blaxill continues."
►January 25, 2007 - The Age of
Autism: 'Unstrange Minds' - United Press International via Johns
Hopkins University - "'You're going to hate my book,' Roy Richard
Grinker told me a few weeks ago when I met him at George Washington
University. Actually, I don't hate 'Unstrange Minds: Remapping the
World of Autism,' his newly published, beautifully written look at
autism through the lens of history and culture. I just disagree with
it."
►January 9, 2007 - The
Age of Autism: A new environment - United Press International via
redOrbit - "We are all environmentalists now. At least that's the
impression you get from reading the discussion surrounding the
Combating Autism Act that President Bush recently signed into law. Much
attention -- and properly so -- has gone toward what the bill does not
do. It does not, after the House got through amending it, set aside a
specific amount of money to look into environmental causes of autism.
And it does not specifically mention research into whether vaccines are
involved in the ten-fold rise in diagnoses in recent years. But here's
what it does do: It says the director of the National Institutes of
Health will coordinate research into "the cause (including possible
environmental causes) ... and treatment of autism spectrum disorder."
Those might be the most important parentheses in recent American
history. What's afoot is nothing short of revolutionary -- a fresh
attempt to find what's causing autism without taking anything off the
table."
►December 27, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: The AOA Awards '06 - United Press International via
redOrbit - "Person of the Year: Anne Dachel. This Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
mom and member of the National Autism Association keeps chipping away
at the mainstream media's wall of indolence and incuriosity...Private
citizens have every right to question elected officials and keep the
media on their toes, whether the pooh-bahs like it or not. It's an
old-fashioned thing called citizenship. Person of the Century: Bernard
Rimland, who died this year, is all that. What's more, you can pick the
century -- in the one just past, he made a massive contribution by
demolishing the idea that parents' behavior can make their children
autistic."
►December 11, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: 'Problems' in CDC data - United Press International
via redOrbit - "For three years, the CDC has used a study conducted on
its own Vaccine Safety Datalink to reassure parents that mercury in
vaccines does not cause autism. Now a panel of government-appointed
experts says there are 'serious problems' with exactly the approach the
CDC took. 'I think what we're saying is that (study) wasn't the last
word and that things need to be looked at again and perhaps with
different methodology,' chairwoman Irva Hertz-Picciotto told Age of
Autism, which obtained a copy of the panel's report."
►November 20, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: What Newsweek missed - United Press International
via redOrbit
►November 9, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Still's and Pink's - United Press International via
redOrbit
►October 24, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: None so blind - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "How long have we known -- or should have known
-- that medical treatment might help thousands of autistic kids? A half
century, it now appears."
►October 16, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Many, many more - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "The debate over the cause or causes of autism
has been hung up for years on a point that should have been settled by
now: whether the rate is in fact increasing."
►September 26, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Rattled regulators - United Press International via
InformedMoms.com - "A shakeup at the CDC and the shaky performance of
the FDA raise some serious questions relevant to the debate over the
huge rise in reported cases of autism. Both federal agencies are key to
assuring Americans -- and particularly those whose children receive an
ever-increasing load of vaccines -- that there is no relationship
whatsoever between the shots and autism. But both agencies have come
under fire this month in ways that make you wonder how much confidence
to have in their overall performance."
►September 6, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: About those 'old dads' (pdf) - United Press
International via Autism.net.au - "The study released this week that
found older fathers more likely to have autistic children has created a
media stir. But there may be less to the story than meets the eye."
►August 24, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Something Wicked -- 2 - United Press International
via redOrbit - "The idea of a "chemical connection" in many cases of
autism arose during the 1970s and 1980s, then gave way to gene-based
theories. But the time has come to revive it."
►August 16, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Something Wicked -- 1 - United Press International
via Voice of the Environment - "In previous installments of this
column, I've sketched the natural history of the disorder beginning
with child psychiatrist Leo Kanner's landmark 1943 paper, 'Autistic
Disturbances of Affective Contact.' And I've suggested that from the
very beginning, an environmental trigger -- something harmful coming
from the outside in -- was alarmingly evident. As Macbeth put it,
there's reason to worry that 'Something wicked this way comes.'"
►July 28, 2006 - The Age of
Autism: 'Amish bill' introduced - United Press International via
Relfe.com - "For the second time this week, legislation aimed at
determining whether vaccines are linked to an epidemic of unrecognized
side effects has been introduced in Congress -- this time as a direct
result of reporting by Age of Autism. The new legislation, titled the
Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated
Populations Act of 2006, would order the National Institutes of Health
to study 'health outcomes, including autism,' in those two groups."
►July 28, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: 'The first casualty' - United Press International
via Voice of the Environment - "'That made me go back and dig out a
paper titled "From Safety Last To Children First,' by Mark Blaxill of
the group SafeMinds and Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National
Vaccine Information Center. It was submitted to a CDC panel on vaccine
safety in 2004. 'The obvious concern is that benefits may be overstated
and that risks will be suppressed,' they wrote in terms that eerily
echo Ricks'. And they made the war analogy explicit, citing 'a mission
of fighting a 'war on disease' that disregards the secondary and
tertiary consequences of war and views innocent children as inevitable
consequences.'"
►July 14, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Anna's last days -- 2 - United Press International
via redOrbit - "The death of a 17-month-old Scottish girl named Anna
Duncan has come at an inopportune moment for Britain's health
authorities. Late last month 30 top scientists warned in an open
letter: 'The time has come to draw a line under the question of any
association between the MMR vaccine and autism. The UK's children are
in danger of serious illness or death if they are left unimmunised.'
But Anna's death raises another question: whether these same health
authorities are digging deeply enough into reports of serious illness,
death -- and yes, autism -- following MMR vaccination."
►July 6, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Anna's last days -- 1 - United Press International
via redOrbit - "On April 26 a Scottish child named Anna Duncan attended
a party where two children had chickenpox. Nine days later she got her
routine measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Four days after that she
developed classic chickenpox symptoms -- spots and fever. One week
later, on May 14, Anna was dead from an apparent seizure. She was 17
months old. Now her father, John, is struggling with the sudden loss of
a bright, lively child -- and increasingly suspicious that the MMR shot
during an apparent chickenpox infection triggered her death."
►June 13, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: But is Wakefield right? - United Press International
via redOrbit - "Let`s put aside the issues surrounding the Lancet paper
and concerns about a measles epidemic and go straight to the heart of
the matter: Does the MMR cause autism? In other words, is Wakefield
right? After looking into the topic for more than a year, I`m very
concerned that he may be -- that, especially in children whose immune
systems have been rendered susceptible by any number of possible
exposures, the combined live-virus vaccine has its fingerprints all
over numerous cases of regressive autism."
►June 9, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Gardasil vs. Hep B - United Press International via
Dr. Joel's Adjustments for Life - "At least two doctors tell me their
faith in the government`s entire childhood immunization schedule was
shattered by the CDC`s insistence that every newborn needs a Hep B shot
as an urgent matter of public health. 'It is universally accepted that
such mandate was forced upon our children only because they were
`available,` while efforts to vaccinate high-risk adults had repeatedly
failed,' Dr. F. Edward Yazbak testified in 2001 before the
Massachusetts House of Representatives.
►May 24, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 7 - United Press International via
redOrbit - "When a mother in Washington state and a researcher in
Washington, D.C., offer an identical observation about autistic kids,
you can`t help but notice. That observation is simple but potentially
significant: Children later diagnosed with regressive autism often got
physically sick around the time of their live-virus vaccinations."
►May 17, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 6 - United Press International via
RichardGWhite.com - "In 1942 a 12-month-old child named Richard M. got
a live-virus smallpox vaccination that triggered a fever and diarrhea
from which he recovered 'in somewhat less than a week.' We know about
Richard because he is Case 3 in psychiatrist Leo Kanner`s landmark
study, 'Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact,' which alerted the
world to a condition that differed 'markedly and uniquely from anything
reported so far.'"
►May 15, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 5 - United Press International via
RichardGWhite.com - "Kimberly said Timothy's trial was explained to her
as a step in the development of a four-in-one
chickenpox-measles-mumps-rubella vaccine -- that's why the chickenpox
and MMR shots were given at the same. For the same reason, the
chickenpox shot Timothy got had a much higher dose of virus than the
standard shot, she recalls being told, although the consent form did
not mention any increase. A higher dose was necessary because
when viruses are combined, they can interfere in ways that undercut the
effectiveness of individual vaccines, she was told. Merck studies
already had shown more chickenpox would be needed to overcome such
interference in a four-in-one immunization."
►May 13, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 4 - United Press International via
RichardGWhite.com - "Timothy was the first of two children in less than
two years to develop autism in the same Olympia pediatric practice
after participating in Merck trials involving chickenpox and MMR
vaccines. The second child, Jimmy Flinton, got a four-in-one
chickenpox-MMR shot called ProQuad in October of 2002."
►April 30, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 3 - United Press International via
redOrbit - "When 12-month-old Jimmy Flinton joined a clinical trial of
a new immunization for chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella, no one
told his family it contained about 10 times the usual dose of
live-virus chickenpox vaccine. And no one considered whether his
family`s unusual chickenpox history -- including adolescent shingles
and herpesvirus in the eyes -- might raise the risk of adverse
reactions to the vaccine. Now that Jimmy has been diagnosed with
regressive autism, they wish someone had done so."
►April 20, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 2 - United Press International via
redOrbit - "This week, The Age of Autism began a series of articles
entitled "Pox," laying out the compelling observations of a group of
parents in Olympia, Wash., who are concerned live-virus vaccines are
triggering autism. These parents spotted a possibly troublesome trio of
factors in their children's cases: Chickenpox and measles-mumps-rubella
(MMR) vaccinations clustered together at the earliest recommended ages;
a family history of problematic reactions to naturally occurring
chickenpox and other herpesviruses; and the onset of autism in their
children, often following a brief but notable physical illness."
►April 18, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 1 - United Press International via
redOrbit - "Children in families with problematic reactions to
chickenpox virus may be at risk for developing autism if they get that
live-virus immunization too close to other live-virus vaccines, a
three-month United Press International investigation of cases in one
northwest U.S. city suggests. Several such families in the Washington
state capital of Olympia watched their children regress into
full-syndrome autism -- losing language and social skills and adopting
repetitive behaviors -- in the months following the shots. Two children
had participated in small clinical trials in Olympia of investigational
Merck & Co. chickenpox vaccines in combination with the live-virus
mumps-measles-rubella vaccine -- the MMR."
►April 12, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Christian's mom speaks - United Press International
via redOrbit - "A small earthquake rumbled through the autism world
shortly after 7:30 a.m. on April 11, and the aftershocks are going to
be felt for a long time. That's when Katie Wright, daughter of
NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright, said she is concerned her young son
Christian's autism might be related to vaccines he received, that he is
getting better through treatments that include biomedical
interventions, and that it's time for parents to follow their own
'common sense' when they get their kids vaccinated."
►April 4, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury ban opposed - United Press International via
redOrbit - "Representatives of 22 medical organizations have written to
all members of Congress opposing efforts to ban the mercury-based
preservative thimerosal from vaccines. 'Our organizations respectfully
wish to state our opposition to all legislative efforts at the federal
and state levels to restrict access to vaccines containing thimerosal,
an ethylmercury-based preservative,' said the letter dated April 3 from
'Multiple National Organizations that Support Safe and Effective
Vaccines.'"
►March 31, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Hot potato on the Hill - United Press International
via redOrbit - "The newly proposed legislation to study the autism rate
in never-vaccinated American kids could settle the debate over vaccines
and autism once and for all. Does that mean it will never happen?
This week U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., stepped out front on the
issue. She announced at a briefing at the National Press Club that she
is drafting legislation to mandate that the federal government find the
answer to that question."
►March 30, 2006 - UPI
Autism story prompts bill - United Press International via redOrbit
- "A U.S. congresswoman said Thursday she is drafting legislation to
force the federal government to study the autism rate in
never-vaccinated children -- a direct result, she said, of United Press
International's reporting on the issue. 'Shouldn't someone in the
medical community take a more scientific look at this?' Rep. Carolyn
Maloney, D-N.Y., said at a briefing at the National Press Club. 'Don't
we deserve at least that much?'"
►March 21, 2006 - The Age of
Autism: Allergic responses - United Press International via
EveHillary.org - "A plausible link is emerging between widely used
childhood medicines and the risk of developing allergies and especially
asthma. But you'd never know it from listening to federal health
authorities or reading the mainstream press."
►March 17, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury creeps back in - United Press International
via redOrbit - "New calculations suggest children today can be exposed
to more than half the mercury that was in vaccines in the 1990s, even
though manufacturers began phasing it out in 1999."
►March 2, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Pay no attention - United Press International via
redOrbit - "At least in our view, it is a bit twisted -- logically
speaking -- to simultaneously spend taxpayer money to keep studying
whether a mercury preservative causes autism, yet recommend that
pregnant women and children get vaccines containing that preservative.
Especially so when alternatives are available that are free of the
preservative, called thimerosal."
►February 28, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Less is beautiful - United Press International via
Voice of the Environment - "Whatever the reason, a big decline in
autism diagnoses would be welcome news to anyone who cares about the
nightmarish prevalence of the disorder."
►February 21, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Who runs Colorado? - United Press International via
redOrbit - "Denver's Rocky Mountain News says it's time to get over
fears that a mercury-based preservative in flu vaccines could harm
children or pregnant women. Its editorial on Sunday perfectly
capsulates one side of what has become an increasingly heated debate."
►February 16, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Jabbing the MMR - United Press International via
redOrbit - "And in the debate over whether those jabs can cause autism,
the focus in the United States has mostly been on a mercury
preservative, while across the Atlantic the issue is the MMR -- the
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine."
►February 14, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Snoozeweeklies - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "The nation's top two newsweeklies have just
weighed in on the problems of boys and the decline in science literacy.
Both abjectly failed to address a crucial part of the picture: the
impact of environmental toxicity on children's development -- and
America's future."
►February 9, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: Doctors for mercury - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "As doctors and health authorities fight state
bans on mercury in vaccines and keep giving it to kids and pregnant
women, one fact stands out: their certainty. The image of pediatricians
and public officials as valiant defenders of mercury takes a bit of
getting used to, given their longstanding efforts to keep the toxic
element out of our food, our bodies and the environment."
►February 2, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: New test of gold salts - United Press International
via RichardGWhite.com - "A Columbia University scientist plans to test
whether gold salts improve the functioning of 'autistic mice' -- a step
toward finding whether they could help children with autism."
►January 17, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: The Wright approach - United Press International via
Autism Society of the Bluegrass - "The head of NBC is donating more
than $2 million to a Baltimore research institute to do something
innovative: listen and learn from the parents of children who have
autism. Bob and Suzanne Wright's organization, Autism Speaks, is giving
$2.3 million to the Kennedy Krieger Institute to fund the first year of
development of an autism database that eventually will connect parents,
educators and researchers."
►January 6, 2006 - The
Age of Autism: CDC probes vaccines - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "The CDC is continuing to investigate whether a
mercury preservative in childhood immunizations has caused cases of
autism -- despite the fact a report it paid for said such research
should end."
►January 4, 2006 - The Age
of Autism: Red flag on gold salts - United Press International via
Free Republic - "A number of readers have raised concerns that gold
salts -- which may have improved the mental functioning of the first
child diagnosed with autism -- are untested and unproven as a treatment
and can be dangerous."
►December 30, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Gold standards - United Press International via
Voice of the Environment - "A published scientific paper suggests gold
salts -- the treatment that may have prompted improvement in the first
child ever diagnosed with autism -- can affect mental conditions."
►December 23, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Gold salts pass a test - United Press International
via Adventures in Autism - "In a striking follow-up to our reporting on
the first child diagnosed with autism -- and his improvement after
treatment with gold salts -- a chemistry professor says lab tests show
the compound can 'reverse the binding' of mercury to molecules."
►December 19, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Missing in Mississippi - United Press International
via Adventures in Autism - "In this -- the second of three parts
recounting our reporting on autism since the start of the year -- we
revisit the first child ever diagnosed with the disorder."
►December 17, 2005 - The Age of Autism:
The story so far - United Press International via Whale.to - "Part
1 of 3. In February, we began this ongoing series of articles on the
roots and rise of autism. Now, at the end of the year, here's a summary
of our story so far:"
►December 14, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Question of the year - United Press International
via Adventures in Autism - "This was the year Big Media pitted parents
against experts over whether vaccines cause autism -- and decided the
experts are right. But they may have forgotten to ask an embarrassingly
obvious question."
►December 7, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret' - United Press International
via Whale.to - " It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of
Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County,
Ill. But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health
Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common
with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never
been vaccinated. And they don't have autism."
►November 30, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Nuts - United Press International via Adventures in
Autism - "You may have seen the brief news stories this week: A
15-year-old Canadian girl with a severe peanut allergy kissed her
boyfriend -- and died."
►November 19, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Flu shot flashpoint - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "It's flu shot season, and that simple fact is
sharply focusing the debate over a possible link between vaccines and
autism. The reason: Most flu shots contain thimerosal, the
mercury-based preservative that some suspect caused a huge rise in
autism cases beginning in the 1990s."
►November 14, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Showdown in Santa Fe - United Press International
via Adventures in Autism - "A pediatrician had an appointment Monday
with the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy to deliver a blunt message: Its
members need to warn state residents that the mercury in flu shots
could be harmful to children -- or risk being remembered for failing to
do their job."
►November 10, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: 'The facts say maybe' - United Press International
via Adventures in Autism - " A small text block on the cover of the
current Columbia Journalism Review may be a lot bigger than it looks:
'Drug Test. Q: Does thimerosal cause autism? A: The press says no; the
facts say maybe.'"
►November 8, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Concerned in Tennessee - United Press International
via Adventures in Autism - "Susan Lynn would like some information,
please: What is the autism rate among people living in the United
States right now who have never been vaccinated? If you have that data
or know where to find it, kindly contact her by the end of the month,
care of the Tennessee House of Representatives, which is considering
whether to ban a mercury preservative from childhood vaccines."
►November 5, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Amish genes - United Press International via Autism
News & More - "What do the experts say about the idea that genes
could explain a lower rate of autism among the Amish? Well, two noted
medical geneticists say it's entirely possible."
►October 29, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: The Amish Elephant - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "A specter is haunting the medical and
journalism establishments of the United States: Where are the
unvaccinated people with autism?"
►October 24, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury goes to work - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "Kharasch, who died in 1957, is widely
known for work reflected in that 1924 patent: the creation of
thimerosal, the ethyl-mercury-based preservative used in a wide range
of medical products including vaccines. It allowed for multidose vials
and mass vaccination."
►October 17, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Connecting new dots - United Press International via
Austism News & More - "Until now, the debate over a possible link
between ethyl mercury and autism has focused on its use in vaccines
beginning in the 1930s, when the first children diagnosed with the
disorder were born."
►October 12, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: 'My child is toxic' - United Press International via
Voice of the Environment - "This column receives a welcome avalanche of
correspondence, but our recent discussion of autism as a "whole-body
illness" has generated more e-mail and faster than any other topic
we've considered."
►October 10, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: More sick kids - United Press International via
Voice of the Environment - "In our last column, 'A whole-body illness,'
we wrote: 'Something is medically wrong with many, many autistic
children. To be more precise, many things are wrong with them. Yet
autism is defined by the health authorities as a mental disorder,
diagnosed solely by observation.'"
►October 4, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: A whole-body illness - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "One advantage of writing an ongoing
column is trends become evident as readers respond over time -- trends
that might not emerge in a single installment, no matter how detailed.
Here's one of those trends: Something is medically wrong with many,
many autistic children."
►October 3, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Critics have their say - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "In recent columns, we have explored
reports by parents linking the onset of their child's autism to
vaccinations. These parents strongly suspect a mercury-containing
preservative in vaccines -- and in some cases, the vaccines themselves
-- were responsible."
►September 27, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Regression - United Press International via Autism
News & More - " Regression, regression, regression. That's the
theme of much of the e-mail this column has received, sparked by two
recent installments. The first reported confirmation by a University of
Washington study that parents are right when they say they have watched
their children lose language and social skills and become autistic. The
study reviewed first-birthday videos, which documented that regression
had come afterward."
►September 26, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Case Number 88924 - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Mary Jo Silva was reading last week's column
about reports from the 1990s linking autism and immunizations when she
came to this paragraph about a vaccine reaction in August 1994: 'Low
fever, much discomfort. Patient laid in bed and cried and moaned;
three-four days post-vaccination, rash traveled over patient's body and
lasted at least one week. Within six weeks of vaccination patient was
observed as losing previously gained language and social skills;
diagnosed autistic.'"
►September 21, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Adverse events - United Press International via
Adventures in Autism - "Years before the alarm sounded nationwide about
a possible link between vaccines and autism, some doctors were making
that connection themselves. The evidence: 83 reports filed with the
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System associating the onset of autism
with childhood immunizations. The reports, compiled and catalogued by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug
Administration, were analyzed by Age of Autism."
►September 19, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Research reversal - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "As public funding all but dries up for
research into a possible link between vaccines and autism, advocates
are trying to tap new sources, but it's too early to tell if they will
find any. 'It's just appalling,' said Jim Moody, counsel to SafeMinds,
a group that backs research into a possible link between autism and a
mercury preservative called thimerosal that was used in childhood
vaccines. He said a number of scientists -- including researchers at
Columbia University, the University of Washington and the University of
Arkansas -- have been turned down for federal grants to follow up on
such studies."
►September 13, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Videos - United Press International via Autism News
& More - "Do parents know what they're talking about? That has
turned out to be a key question in the debate over autism and its
possible causes and cures."
►September 7, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: One angry mom - United Press International via
Autism News and More - "Ginger Taylor of Los Angeles describes herself
as 'a thirty-something wife of the nicest man alive and mother to the
two cutest boys ever. I am a former Johns Hopkins-educated family
therapist, and also a Web designer. Most importantly I am a mom.
Chandler, born in March '02, is autistic, and Webster, born in Sept.
'00, is a mostly typical boy, with a few Autism Spectrum Disorder
traits.'"
►August 31, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: New York nixes mercury - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "Have America's medical authorities --
including pediatricians -- lost their credibility on an issue involving
the well-being of the nation's children? It's hard to avoid that
question after New York Gov. George Pataki Tuesday signed a bill
banning a mercury preservative from medicines given to children under 3
years old and pregnant women. The law takes effect in 2009 and exempts
mercury-containing flu vaccines in case of an epidemic."
►August 29, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Gold salts to be tested - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "A University of Kentucky chemist says he
will do tests to see if gold salts might help children with autism --
two weeks after this column reported that the first autistic child
seemed to improve markedly after that treatment. 'You follow your nose
in research, and when I saw that I thought, yes, this is a
possibility,' said Boyd Haley, a professor and former chemistry
department chairman at the university."
►August 24, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Gold and mercury - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Something startling happened to an autistic
boy named "Donald T." 58 years ago at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis.
He got better -- a lot better. That's when Donald, the first person
ever diagnosed with the disorder that now afflicts a quarter-million
U.S. children, was treated with gold salts after a life-threatening
attack of juvenile arthritis. The treatment at the renowned orthopedic
clinic was designed to combat his arthritis, but Donald's autism
improved remarkably, too."
►August 22, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Gold? - United Press International via Autism News
& More - "Why would treatment with gold help someone with autism?
That is the question raised by The Age of Autism's report last week
that the first child ever diagnosed with the disorder appeared to
improve significantly after treatment with gold salts."
►August 17, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: March of the experts - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "The news that the first child diagnosed
with autism got better after medical treatment -- while leading experts
didn't make the connection -- suggests how research and reality have
been distorted for decades."
►August 15, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Case 1 revisited - United Press International via
Autism News & More - " The first person ever diagnosed with autism
lived in a small town in Mississippi. He still does. 'Donald T.' is now
71, and after a 'miraculous response' to medical treatment at age 12,
he appears to have recovered significantly since his original diagnosis
as a 5-year-old. His improvement is so striking, in fact, that it
raises new questions about the disorder and its treatment."
►August 9, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: New in name only? - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "This week's column about the first autism
diagnoses brought a quick response from longtime autism researcher Dr.
Darold A. Treffert. Treffert is past president of the Wisconsin Medical
Society and a psychiatrist at St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. He
wrote the book 'Extraordinary People: Understanding the Savant
Syndrome.'"
►August 8, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: But what about 1930? - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "Sunday's debate on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
over vaccines and autism gave welcome exposure to an issue that won't
go away quietly."
►August 3, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Gene suspects located - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "Genetic interactions that appear to
create a risk for autism have been identified by researchers at Duke
University."
►August 2, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: The epidemic debate - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Monday's column featured a letter from Kendra
Pettengill of Roseburg, Ore., who challenged the idea that the huge
increase in autism diagnoses over the past decade can be explained by
better diagnosis. In fact, she said, something has happened to trigger
an epidemic of autism in America's children."
►August 1, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: What epidemic? - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "One of the core questions about autism is
whether it actually has increased at startling rates or if it is just
better recognized than it used to be."
►July 26, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Generation Zero - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Here is part of an interview with Mark
Blaxill, research chair of the group SafeMinds, which advocates removal
of mercury from medical products."
►July 25, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Zero exposure - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Part 1 of 2. Perhaps we should have checked
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before setting off
to look into the prevalence of autism among the Amish. Nothing about
the Amish -- who seem to have low rates of both vaccinations and autism
-- relates to anyone in the rest of the country, the CDC director told
us last week."
►July 19, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Rep. wants Amish study - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "A U.S. Congressman who is a medical
doctor said Tuesday he will seek funding to study the autism rate among
the largely unvaccinated Amish. 'I want to get somebody to do a study
on that community,' Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., told United Press
International. 'I would like to get funding and have somebody go into
the Amish community and do a survey.'"
►July 18, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Isabella's story - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Here, as promised in our last column, is an
account by one mother of her child's autism. The mother and daughter,
Libby and Isabella Rupp of St. Paul, Minn., were pictured with a
front-page article in The New York Times last month about the debate
over vaccines and autism."
►July 13, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Both sides now - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Part 1 of 2. Regular readers of this column
(and we thank you) know that we value a back-and-forth approach. Since
beginning this open-ended series six months ago, we have paused several
times to let readers speak, and our direction has been shaped by their
responses."
►July 11, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: 'The Times' vs. parents - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "Last week this column critiqued a June 25
article in The New York Times, 'On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs.
Research.' Subsequently we were forwarded copies of two letters that a
parents group sent to the Times' public editor."
►July 6, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Dismaying 'Times' - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Who knew the longest word in the English
language would be the best one to explain what is wrong with a
newspaper article? The word is related to establishment bias, and the
newspaper in question is none other than The New York Times."
►July 5, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Homeschooler APB - United Press International via
Autism News & More - "Lawyers, it is said, never ask a question to
which they do not already know the answer. This column has adopted the
opposite tack, asking questions to which nobody knows the answer. Where
are the autistic Amish? That was one such question, and it led to our
tentative conclusion autism seems surprisingly rare in this isolated
group."
►June 28, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Homeschooled - United Press International via Autism
News & More - "Where are the unvaccinated homeschooled children
with autism? Nowhere to be found, says a doctor who treats autistic
children and is knowledgeable about the homeschooled world. 'It's
largely nonexistent,' Dr. Jeff Bradstreet told UPI's Age of Autism.
'It's an extremely rare event.'"
►June 27, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: HHS eyes Amish study - United Press International
via Autism News & More - "A top U.S. health official is considering
whether to launch studies of the Amish -- and perhaps other
unvaccinated groups -- in response to United Press International's
articles about a low prevalence of autism in that community, according
to several people who spoke with him last week."
►June 16, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Feedback on the Amish 2 - This is the Second of Two
Columns Sharing Reader Response to Our Exploration of Autism Among the
Amish. - United Press International via RichardGWhite.com
►June 14, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Feedback on the Amish 1 - United Press International
via RichardGWhite.com - "A number of readers said the series seemed to
implicate vaccines unfairly as a cause of autism, because the Amish
have a low vaccination rate."
►June 8, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: One in 15,000 Amish - United Press International -
"The autism rate for U.S. children is 1 in 166, according to the
federal government. The autism rate for the Amish around Middlefield,
Ohio, is 1 in 15,000, according to Dr. Heng Wang."
►June 6, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Amish ways - United Press International - "Part 2 of
2. This column in recent weeks has focused on two related questions: Is
the prevalence of autism lower among the Amish, and, if so, how do they
differ from the rest of us?"
►June 2, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: A glimpse of the Amish - United Press International
- "Part 1 of 2. Recently, a man named Dick Warner got in touch with us.
He has been following this column's search for Amish people with autism
and said he might have something to contribute."
►May 26, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Oaklawn - United Press International - " Finally. I
found a place that could tell me all about Amish people with autism."
►May 24, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Heavy metal - United Press International - "Parents
of autistic children Tuesday launched an organization called Generation
Rescue based on their conviction that flushing mercury out of
children's bodies improves and in some instances reverses autism."
►May 23, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Goshen - United Press International - "Our search
for Amish people with autism is now departing Lancaster County, Pa.,
and heading for the Midwest, where a significant percentage of the
nation's 80,000 Amish can be found."
►May 20, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury and the Amish - United Press International -
"The cases of autism among the Amish that I've identified over the past
several weeks appear to have at least one link -- a link made of
mercury."
►May 17, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury ascending - United Press International - "A
year ago, the prestigious Institute of Medicine slammed the door on the
idea that mercury in vaccines bore any relation to autism."
►May 10, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Witness - United Press International - "Frank Noonan
is a family doctor in Lancaster County. When I met him for lunch last
Saturday, he was still in golfing togs from his weekly game --
'Saturdays are my 'I can breathe' day,' he says."
►May 9, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Absence of evidence - United Press International -
"After several weeks of looking, the prevalence of autism among the
central Pennsylvania Amish still appears remarkably low, and the few
cases I have found suggest an ominous pattern. In two columns last
month I asked, 'Where are the autistic Amish?'"
►May 6, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Letter from Ibiza - United Press International - "As
part of United Press International's ongoing series on the roots and
rise of autism, we invited readers to interact with us via e-mail. As a
result, we have received loads of insightful, informative, sometimes
critical comment; we printed a selection in a previous column and will
make it a regular feature of the series."
►May 5, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Mercury in the air - United Press International - "A
new study has found a possible link between higher mercury emissions
and higher rates of autism."
►May 4, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Backward - United Press International - "When Leo
Kanner first identified autism as a unique developmental disorder in
1943, he was certain it was present from birth."
►May 3, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Feedback Loop - United Press International - "One of
the great things about being a journalist in this day and age is how
easy it is to interact with readers in a meaningful way."
►May 2, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Educated Guesses - United Press International -
"There was something similarly strange about the children who caught
Leo Kanner's attention starting in 1938. He called their behavior
'autistic.'"
►April 29, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: 'Absolutely different' - United Press International
- "Her name was Virginia. 'Virginia S., born Sept. 13, 1931, has
resided at a state training school for the feebleminded since 1936,
with the exception of one month in 1938, when she was paroled to a
school for the deaf for 'educational opportunity.'"
►April 29, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Donald T. and Fritz V. - United Press International
- "They were born within four months of each other, Fritz V. in June of
1933 and Donald T. that September. Fritz was born in Austria, Donald in
Mississippi, but they had a surprising amount in common."
►April 28, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: A new approach - United Press International - "Part
2 of 2. Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, a pediatrician in Lynchburg, Va., is
concerned that the increasing number of childhood vaccinations in the
1990s may have triggered a huge increase in autism and other
developmental disorders. This article looks at treatment strategies she
and others are trying based on that view."
►April 28, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Sick children - United Press International - "Part 1
of 2. Dr. Elizabeth Mumper is an unlikely contrarian. Mumper is a
pediatrician in the southern Virginia city of Lynchburg, best known as
the home of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist University."
►April 19, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: Julia - United Press International - "Part 2 of 2.
Three-year old Julia is napping when I arrive at the spare, neat,
cheerful house on Musser School Road near the town of Leola in
Lancaster County."
►April 18, 2005 - The
Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly - United Press International -
"Part 1 of 2. Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County,
heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with
some form of the disorder."
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