Fresh Up At LBRB
March 22, 2010 by Do'C 
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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 Donepezil for improving REM sleep in autistic children
Sullivan discusses his thoughts about a new clinical trial aimed at scientifically evaluating whether or not donepezil can increase REM sleep in autistic children (possibly leading to improved cognition).
Chicago Tribune journalists, Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan, were awarded first place by the Association of Health Care Journalists for their autism series Dubious Medicine. Sullivan (via Autism News Beat) brings you the details.
Does The NIH Want To Study Jenny McCarthy’s Son?
A new clinical study from the NIH wants to look at “recovered” autistic kids. Jenny McCarthy has complained on more than one occasion that no health authority seems to want to know how she “cured” her son. That looks to be a thing of the past now. Will Jenny step up to the plate and participate? Is she spreading the word to her Generation Rescue Followers?
Dan Olmsted Fails To See The Problem
March 5, 2010 by Do'C Printer-Friendly Version
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 - a likely false position of the Lancet that the retraction of Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper is grounded in statistical error due to “selection bias”. Instead, I’m simply going to present a few selected quotes from Olmsted’s piece, evidence from a document he states should have been read, and ask him to reconcile the contradiction (without resorting to conspiracy theory).
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