Children getting their blood drawn at a birthday party? Did the invite remind kids to wear short sleeves and skip breakfast? Has this become an accepted party game along side the bouncy castles and treasure hunts? It is if you’re Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the by now discredited charlatan “researcher” who authored the just retracted 1998 Lancet study …
Two environmentalists performed “self-experiments” by eating canned food and rubbing Scotch Guard on themselves then wrote a book and called it scientific evidence of harmful toxins. Voila, national media attention, instant expert status. And somehow, by pure chance or a well-orchestrated PR campaign, the book bad-mouthing BPA and other household toxins came out just before the FDA announced its long-awaited opinion …
Bath toys, shampoos, air fresheners poison our children and cause diseases like autism. The H1N1 vaccine is more dangerous than the H1N1 virus itself. Boys exposed to too much pthalates will develop large breasts. These are just some of the claims sussed out at STATS.org, that increasingly recognized organization devoted to setting the record straight on the erroneous facts …
Drinking the local tap water won’t cause autism. Forget about pollution, pesticides, heavy metals and any other enviromental causes particular to where you live. Your choice of neighborhood, town, even city doesn’t seem to put your child at risk of autism. Fortunately, we can cross off a slew of suspects – local enviromental exposures – from the list of possible causes of autism. That’s …
Autism rocks. Bruce Springstein performed for the Fifth Annual Autism Speaks concert on November 17th at none other than Carnegie Hall. So did Jerry Seinfeld. No less than David Gregory of NBC News’ Meet the Press emceed the event. If you’re impressed now, take a look at the committee for the fundraiser: Jamie Foxx, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, …