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Age of Autism Awards David Kirby 2008 Journalist of the Year
December 30, 2008 by Anne Dachel from Age of Autism
It is my great privilege to name David Kirby, Age of Autism's Reporter of Year. I know that for many of us in the autism community, that's an understatement. David should be receiving a lifetime achievement award for what he's done.
I'm qualified to write on this, not because of any degree in journalism, but due to my years of dealing with members of the press who report on autism, especially the topic of vaccines and autism. Many other parents do the same thing. Our earnest hope is that they'll report both sides of the issue honestly. It's rare that this happens, however. Read more.
New Clues to Who Is Susceptible to Autism Via Vaccine Injury
December 20, 2008 by SafeMinds Board Member Scott Laster
A study titled "Familial Risk Factors in Autism" by Brimacombe et al was published in 2007 in the Journal of Child Neurology. The results of this study may have implications on the current debate over philosophical exemptions in New Jersey, and may yield important clues on how future public health policy might identify sub-groups that are susceptible to vaccine injury. Read more.
Wilson: Some Vaccines Still Contain Mercury
July 9, 2008 WXYZ-TV Detroit
It’s the controversy that won’t go away. Is the skyrocketing rate of Autism in children due in any way to the mercury long contained in childhood vaccines? It’s an issue our chief investigative reporter Steve Wilson has stayed with from the start…and Steve will science ever answer this one? Read more.
Don Imus Interview with Dr. Bernadine Healy, Former NIH Director
May 13, 2008 Imus on MSNBC
Read transcript and watch video.
CDC Under Siege
April 2, 2008 The Huffington Post by Deirdre Imus
When American scholar Warren Bennis said, "Bureaucracies are beautiful mechanisms for the evasion of responsibilities and guilt," he might well have been speaking of the current state of affairs inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read more.
Can Vaccines Cause Autism? CDC "We Don't Know"
March 29, 2008 The Huffington Post by David Kirby
It was a big morning in Atlanta today. In case you missed CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding this morning on CNN's "House Call with Dr Sanjay Gupta," it was rather interesting. Read more.
A Look Into Vacccines
December 24, 2007 from KOMU-8 NEWS
It's a conflict of interest. You know it and I know it...but the average mother, person doesn't know all of that. They don't understand all the intricacies of who is being paid by whom, said Dr. Frank Engley. Doctor Frank Engley a researcher and microbiologist who served on boards with the Centers for Disease Control, the FDA, and EPA throughout the 70s and 80s. The investigation continues with the debate over whether a preservative in many vaccines causes autism. Some people we talked to say the Centers for Disease Control can't afford admit that thimerosal could pose a grave risk. Click here to read more and watch video.
Attack on Mothers
June 19, 2007 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from The Huffington Post
"The poisonous public attacks on Katie Wright this week--for revealing that her autistic son Christian (grandson of NBC Chair Bob Wright), has recovered significant function after chelation treatments to remove mercury -- surprised many observers unfamiliar with the acrimonious debate over the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosal. But the patronizing attacks on the mothers of autistic children who have organized to oppose this brain-killing poison is one of the most persistent tactics employed by those defending Thimerosal against the barrage of scientific evidence linking it to the epidemic of pediatric neurological disorders, including autism. ..." Read more.
Autism: Why The Debate Rages
June 15, 2007 by Sharyl Attkisson on Couric & Co at cbsnews.com
With the first autism case now being heard in federal vaccine court in Washington D.C., it makes sense to ask: Why is anyone even still debating the possibility of a link between vaccines and autism? After all, for years, many government health officials, advisors and vaccine manufacturers have said there's no association. Read more.
Mercury Rising
A Possible Link Between Chemical Exposure And Autism May Have Been Overlooked In The Very Earliest Cases At Johns Hopkins
February 28, 2007 by Dan Olmsted Baltimore City Paper
In 1943, a child known only as Frederick W. became part of the first medical report of a strange new disorder. Frederick was Case 2 of 11 children whose behavior "differed markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far," wrote Dr. Leo Kanner, the psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University who introduced the syndrome to the world and named it "autism." Read more.
Finally, a Topic Too Hot For The View
ABC's The View airs a special on autism, but will not discuss its causes. Read the critique by David Kirby, show guest, on The Huffington Post.
January 29, 2007 by David Kirby from The Huffington Post.
Daytime television has not been the same since Rosie O'Donnell took a pugnacious seat at the talkative table known as The View. Rosie has pumped more heat and energy into that show than a year's worth of colorful coffee-filled mugs. Read more.
Tracing the Origins of Autism: A Spectrum of New Studies
July 5, 2006 from Environmental Health Perspectives
The etiology of a medical condition might seem an unlikely subject to arouse intense feelings. Yet few medical disorders have stirred up as much passion and divisiveness among scientists and the general public as autism has in recent years. The heat of the controversy has even attracted attention from periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Wired magazine—seemingly improbable forums for a medical debate. Why all the furor? Read more.
Autism, mercury, and politics
July 5, 2006 by Robert Kennedy Jr. from The Boston Globe
MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States. Read more.
Merck Misled on Vaccines, Some Say
The firm supplied shots containing a mercury compound after saying it had halted its use.
March 7, 2005 Los Angeles Times
Drug maker Merck & Co. continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury-based preservative for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the chemical. In September 1999, amid rising concern about the risks of mercury in childhood vaccines, Merck announced that the Food and Drug Administration had approved a preservative-free version of its hepatitis B vaccine. Read more.
Merck Hep-B Press Release
FDA to Weldon Thimerosal Content Letter
Mothering Magazine Warns Parents About Mercury In Flu Vaccines
July 5, 2004 Mothering Magazine Press Release
Annual flu vaccinations for all infants and toddlers 6 through 23 months of age will be required in the United Stats, starting this fall, even though injected flu vaccines still contain mercury in the form of the preservative thimerosal. Read more.
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