http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:28:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been about three months since I lasted posted here that I'd be blogging about INSAR's International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR). In case you missed it, and are interested, I attended IMFAR, and I did blog a little bit about my visit over at Left Brain/Right Brain: Blogging IMFAR: Opening ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=382 INSAR's annual International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR) is convening in Philadelphia next week (May 20-22). Thanks, in part, to a generous travel grant from the Autism Science Foundation, I'll have the opportunity to attend - and of course I'll be blogging about it over at LBRB. For the most part, I ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=380 Yep, I'm shilling for LBRB. The truth is, that I'm slammin' busy at work these days (a very good problem to have). I'll simply have to settle for pointing interested readers to some fresh reading - a couple of posts up from Sullivan, and one from yours truly. Clinical trial of ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=379 Over at the AoA blog, Dan Olmsted is stil ranting about the Andrew Wakefield saga. This time it's about some of the mainstream media's coverage of the Lancet retraction. The Wakefield Inquisition: Case Series Insanity I'm not going to bother trying to explain to Dan why he's attacking a straw man - ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=376 Unless you live in a cave, you're probably well aware of the GMC findings against Andrew Wakefield, the primary author of the 1998 Lancet paper that claimed to study children who were reffered to a hospital's pediatric GI department with specific behavioral and GI sypmtoms following vaccination with the MMR. Among ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=373 Do yourself a huge favor, and invest the 22 minutes to watch and listen to this Ted Talk by Aimee Mullins about facing adversity. Carefully consider her message, and the potential impact of adaptation - you might just gain new perspective on "disability" along the way too. My favorite quotes ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=372 There's an interesting discussion going on. By now, many are aware of the proposed changes the DSM for autism that will subsume Asperger's and PDD-NOS. Some have expressed the view that this is a good thing, yet others seem to feign agreement while also expressing some degree of contempt. Amidst the apparent concerns of a few, there are ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=371 If there's one thing typical of anti-vaccination trolls on the internet, it's that they are fairly predictable. Amidst tons of logical fallacies, they'll persistently ignore evidence, cite things that don't say what they think they say, provide supporting information in the form of links to conspiracy theory stories, repeat things that ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=369 Liz over at I Speak Of Dreams is keeping a list of several blog responses. Visit the following link for more: tinyurl.com/yz3vpor http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=368 Should you be afraid of a Flu shot? If you're a hard-working parent with school-aged children (perhaps even children enrolled in a couple of different public schools) who really can't afford to have sick kids, let alone be sick and miss work yourself, the answer should be pretty straightforward. A nasty case (or ... http://www.autismstreet.org/weblog/?p=367