“Study Finds Diet Has No Effect on Autism” That was the headline that sparked my interest in this week’s science section in the print version of The New York Times. Sounds like we have a good old fashioned experiment. Some autistic children assigned to eat a certain diet (gluten-free, dairy-free?) …
Oprah’s gone crazy on the cover of Newsweek. She’s spreading bad health advice according to the June 8th cover story “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures and You.” Oprah’s hands are outstretched, eyes teary, mouth ajar on the cover photo. Yes, I agree. The talk show potentate is not portraying the …
Oprah, where’s your science savvy? Oprah’s teaming up with Jenny McCarthy, the celeb mom who says she’s cured her son’s autism through alternative therapies. And who still believes vaccines cause autism despite ample scientific evidence to the contrary. McCarthy’s been on the the show and now will blog on Oprah’s …
Kudos to Alison Singer, the executive vice president of communications and awareness at Autism Speaks, who publicly declared vaccines do not cause autism. The weight of solid scientific evidence finally convinced Singer, a mother of an 11-year daughter with autism, who had to resign from the autism organization that’s still …
Are you either for or against compulsory vaccination? Or is there some middle ground? Great question – but not the one Kate Tuttle posed in Compulsory Vaccination: A Primer over at one of my fave parenting websites, Babble. Tuttle lays out the latest on vaccine safety – the reasons people …