Killing My Pharma Payday
January 15, 2010 by Do'C 
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Over at AoA, Jake Crosby has written a rather lengthy piece about Kev Leitch for which the point seems fairly elusive. You can read a little more about it, or find a link to the post over at LBRB. Neither piece strikes me as really interesting (yes, including Kev’s note), but I did find this comment over at AoA somewhat amusing:
Yeah, that “whole ND thing” is “so clearly” a “pharma front organization”, isn’t it?
I mean really, isn’t it freaking obvious? The mere fact that most ND blogs pretty much lack any “pharma” advertising whatsoever, is such a transparent attempt to cover up the true pharmaceutical industry underpinnings of neurodiversity, right?
The truth is that most bloggers who support the concept of neurodiversity receive handsome monetary compensation (some call it a stipeND) both directly and indirectly from “Big Pharma”. We just don’t want you to know about it. Frankly, if you saw some of the checks we cash monthly, you’d be blogging in favor of neurodiversity too. Hey, big screen plasma TV’s, quarterly vacations (with included childcare) at secret exotic beach resorts, and subscriptions to real medical journals aren’t free don’tcha know.
And if any of you out there surfing the web, and happening across this post, believes that, well, then, believing that doctors is poisonin’ babies with vaccines to give ‘em autism ‘n’ stuff (or at least conspiring with hundreds of thousands of other people to cover it up) will probably come quite easy to you. We prolly don’t even need to discuss what the term “neurodiversity” is really about, because there are more important worries like evil vaccine inventors and pro-police-state-like orgs. that want to git you and yer babies by way of actual force.
Meanwhile, let’s check the sidebar over at Age Of Advertisers, shall we?
[Note: I'm probably putting myself at great personal risk of severe retribution from the evil gay atheist alien pharma overlords at multiple commercial pharmaceutical mega-giants for even mentioning this competitive sidebar here].
Here’s a sideways sidebar link thingy - click to enlarge and verticalize (<- secret pharma lingo, ssh).
“Compounded medications for autism”? Check.
“ASD Vitamin/Mineral formula”? Check.
“Defeat Autism Now”? Check.
“Homeopathy” for autism recovery? Check.
“Medical Plan” for restoring your child’s health (endorsed by Jenny McCarthy)? Check.
“Autism Treatment” workshop featuring “integrative medicine” and “essential nutrition”? Check.
More autism supplements (these with free shipping!)? Check.
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Irony, defined indirectly, yet succinctly? Check!
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Comment by Mike Stanton — 15 January, 2010 @ 1:21 am
I think you made the whole thing up to throw us off the scent of the real story. Don’t think we haven’t noticed how you made a point of not mentioning alien abduction or Area 51.
Comment by Liz Ditz — 15 January, 2010 @ 2:02 am
[tongue in cheek] Oh, D o’ C, you’re just mad cause you weren’t included in the all-expenses, margaritas & lift tickets, junket to our big party at the ski resort, Sun Valley, this year. Grow UP!
Or you are vexed because somebody else got a bigger PharmaShill stipend than you. So, post more often!!!!!!!
[/tongue in cheek]
Now serious: “Age of Advertisers” is one of your best coinages.
Somebody ought to do a reality-based headcount of the {dreaded} neurodiversity bloggers (or community) and count up the number of ads on the ND front vs. the ads on the….erm, well, I don’t know what to call them any more. OK, here’s a stab: “I reject modern, infectious-disease-preventing medicine cause I have the PROOF which is my own beliefs and my baby is my science that it hurt my children and I’ll keep insisting that it did no matter what you say” community.
Dang. That’s a bit harsh toward the people I know IRL that are doing DAN!
Comment by Bev — 15 January, 2010 @ 7:28 am
2:1; 6:15; 11:5; 12:15; 13:1; 21:1; 22:10; 22:18
I have broken your code. As anyone can see, if you look at the links in the Science, Medicine, and Critical Thinking section, understanding that each set of numbers represents a line and letter placement (including spaces) a clear message is embedded: BUY DRUGS.
Also reading this post backwards reveals the message I LOVE BIG PHARMA if you know how to read it.
I would like to know how I can start receiving my stipeND. StipeND. I love that.
Comment by Do'C — 15 January, 2010 @ 8:58 am
Ah, the classic, “pretending you don’t already know” move.
You’re good Bev, you are good.
Comment by ANB — 15 January, 2010 @ 9:42 am
The whole anti-vaccine thing is clearly a pharma front. After all, what better way to discredit the opposition than to make them sound like shrill, ignorant wantwits?
Comment by isles — 15 January, 2010 @ 12:50 pm
Ah, wouldn’t it make things easier for the antivaxers if neurodiversity advocates were all pharma shills. That’s why it MUST BE SO in their book…they’re all about the easy explanation.
“Age of Advertisers” - how rich that they lean so heavily on accusing those who encourage vaccination of being financially motivated.
Comment by Joseph — 15 January, 2010 @ 3:18 pm
A pharma front organization, mind you. They are not content with hiring some shills here and there. They have created a whole organization, obviously with sub-organizations (like ASAN and TAAP), conferences like Autreat and Autscape, that deal with issues that seemingly have nothing to do with vaccines. That’s how they try to fool you, all the while hoping they never get found out.
Comment by Autismnostrum — 15 January, 2010 @ 3:34 pm
There’s a reason they see financial motivation everywhere. Shhh! It’s not evidence of underdeveloped TOM skills. Because everyone knows the parents of kids with autism are ALWAYS very neurotypical. Extremely so. If it weren’t for those vaccine injuries, they’d never be perseverating on the topic and making associative logic leaps and rigid thinking, and….
Shhh, stop looking at me that way. I’m just quirky! Off to collect some stipeND money… as soon as I figure out where the line starts.
Comment by Veri Tas — 15 January, 2010 @ 3:58 pm
The leaders get paid to brainwash you simpletons. They did a great job and earned their bonuses.
Comment by Do'C — 15 January, 2010 @ 4:23 pm
Of course they get paid VT - we do, they do, it’s a win-win deally yo?
Besides, it’s not like pharmaceutical industry leadership figures would have anything else more important to do anyway.
I’m not sure they’ve done a great job though, there’s still a few slackers who haven’t gotten their H1N1 shots yet.