The esteemed British Medical Journal took up the strange and sordid case of Andrew Wakefield, the discredited autism quack whose 1998 study launched the vaccine-autism debacle. Read the piece if you can stomach it. Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent The BMJ editorial accuses the former doc of fraud – …
Ding Dong the Autism Doc is….not dead, but let’s say defrocked. Not a legal term, but the religious, moral, ethical undertones do justice to the atrocious escapades and subsequent come-uppance of the former Doctor Andrew Wakefield so well. Now that Britain has stripped the vaccines-cause-autism auteur of his medical license, I can’t help but wonder… Who will play …
The kiddies back in school, sit back, sip on something and take a quick look at some new discoveries from the past week…that yes, I couldn’t get around to until this week – until the house quieted down again, I breathed a sigh of relief and thought, THANK GOD IT’s MONDAY!!!. This …
Hollywood is not known for its stellar parents. But Brangelina and friends could could teach the parenting industry a thing or two about honoring its best. When’s the last time you heard who won Best Parenting Expert? My point exactly…it needs some glamming up, but it could work. Of course, it’s also true the …
What’s normal? What’s not? What’s not normal enough to be a disorder? What’s further evidence some parents have simply lost their perspective? Ah, the fuzzy border between normal and disordered…the hot topic among mental health peeps these days as we await the new edition of our bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …